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I wish more of those 10k people would help get others off of a package manager that is so fragile and convoluted that updating so often leads to popular things

I wish more of those 10k people would help get others off of a package manager that is so fragile and convoluted that updating so often leads to popular things breaking. Things like macports and pkgsrc do things in an arguably much simpler, more unixy way, without the contortions that so often seem to leave homebrew in a bind after routine operations like updating.

edgyquant 3y ago
I’ve never experienced a broken homebrew and I’ve used Mac for years
- pneumic 3y ago
  Neither have I. My main complaint is that it's slow.
- jmbwell 3y ago
  The comment was in response to parent's stated complaint, namely having to wait for someone else to resolve issues with popular packages being broken after an update, which has been the experience of more than one user.