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"Unix interface on MacOS" which is OSX being basically built off of Free/Net BSD, is so broken that it spawned brew.
by thefz 3y ago
"Unix interface on MacOS" which is OSX being basically built off of Free/Net BSD, is so broken that it spawned brew.
- tonymet 3y agoIMO Homebrew's success is a testament to the compatibility layer. All of the modern "linux" tools run natively (resident, same FS, Network, hardware) on MacOS and the patches are minimal.
- wtallis 3y agoI think the reference to Homebrew may have been using it as a cautionary tale, not a success story. ie. implying the Unix environment that OS X/macOS provides is so messed up that even a project attempting to remedy the shortcomings ended up producing the rather unhinged brew.
- paulmd 3y agoI think GP understands that and just disagrees with it. Brew looks pretty much like a package manager that has to handle binary distributions alongside ports-style source distributions across a range of OS versions and releases and two instruction sets needs to look. It’s a bigger problem than apt purports to solve, for example, more along the lines of FreeBSD with pkg/ports having to coexist via poudriere. But since nobody really has said why they think it’s ‘unhinged’ that’s just speculation ;)