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Apparently hating on homebrew is super popular right now. I run brew on osx and linux and have zero issues.
by bastardoperator 3y ago
Apparently hating on homebrew is super popular right now. I run brew on osx and linux and have zero issues.
- sph 3y agoNo one is talking about issues here.
- cglong 3y agoThe Homebrew UX is great as long as you're on their happy path. Speaking from experience, as soon as I see the warning message I shared at the top, Homebrew gets way worse. For instance, installing ripgrep now requires building the latest version of Rust from source, which takes three hours per Rust version; installing Pandoc requires building and storing the whole GHC; etc.
- SwiftyBug 3y agoI didn't even know Homebrew ran on Linux. Why do you choose Homebrew for your Linux distro instead of its default package manager?
- maleldil 3y agoMore recent packages, for one. I need to use Ubuntu 20.04 for work, and it's easier to get the latest versions I want from linuxbrew than from apt. E.g. clang is on 10.0 from apt and 16.0 from brew. Similarly, fish is 3.1.0 vs 3.6.1.
- bastardoperator 3y agoThis is my exact use case. I need up to date software and I don't want to wait for a package or roll my own package.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoWhy would anyone hate homebrew? The only issue I had was a few years ago when they changed from running as root to running as user and it broke some permissions. Then they released a guide on fixing the problem and that was it.