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Moved from homebrew to nix. Haven't looked back. If something is not on nix, I just build/compile it myself.
by sirodoht 4y ago
Moved from homebrew to nix. Haven't looked back. If something is not on nix, I just build/compile it myself.
- rahen 4y agoI use pkgsrc, which also comes with binary packages through pkgin, although I rarely need to compile things myself. https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-macos/ https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-macos/ Anything that nix does better than pkgsrc?
- sirodoht 4y agoI have zero experience with pkgsrc. From a first glance (from pkgsrc.org), I can say that nix claims to have 80k packages whereas pkgsrc 26k. Also, nix'es main selling point is reproducible builds, which is pretty cool. Other than that, nix is satisfactorily fast (much faster than homebrew, not sure in comparison to pkgsrc).
- e12e 4y agoI landed on macports after trying to follow the instructions for pkgsrc and the signatures/PGP keys were out of sync... Now I've moved partially to homebrew due to better community support - and lack of arm builds for macports. https://build.macports.org/buildslaves https://build.macports.org/buildslaves