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Nice tool. As a nit, > Linux > brew Please don't do this, it's not safe, despite it "existing" as an option. Even a binary download is better than suggesting

Nice tool. As a nit, > Linux > brew Please don't do this, it's not safe, despite it "existing" as an option. Even a binary download is better than suggesting brew on Linux.

Yajirobe 4y ago
why
Hackbraten 4y ago
What do you feel is unsafe about Homebrew?
- password4321 4y ago
  For starters: auto-updating everything before installing anything (HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE default 0). Coupled with uninstalling before determining whether or not the OS version is still supported (not sure if this still can happen, or ever happened on Linux)... fun times all around.
  - naikrovek 4y ago
    that's it?
jhbadger 4y ago
Perhaps you don't understand the use case. It's often the only option for users to install packages on an HPC system, as on such systems you cannot install things as root so the system package manager is infeasible. The only other possibility is Anaconda, but that has its origins as a Python tool and only has a fairly limited set of non-Python related packages.
- password4321 4y ago
  Semi-relevant (userspace dev tools) Asdf – language tool version manager https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33323261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33323261 (3 days ago)
eshack94 4y ago
Not necessarily doubting you, but I am curious to hear why you think this. On what basis do you suggest that it's not safe?