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What is it doing better than homebrew ?
by nartho 1y ago
What is it doing better than homebrew ?
- adamnemecek 1y agoRight now probably not much, it's WIP.
- carterschonwald 1y agoHaving different project leadership is probably a big selling point ;)
- adamnemecek 1y agoDoes homebrew have bad leadership?
- paradox460 1y agoSome of their leadership has been heavy handed with regards to unpopular decisions, like removing options from packages.
- Henchman21 1y agoWhat exactly went down with homebrew? Suddenly my employer was pulling it from every device and I never really got a solid explanation of why! I've not been able to get anything meaningful from searching on my own, obviously. Someone help a guy out?
- israrkhan 1y agoHomebrew itself is not bad, but it does allow users to install software from thirdparty sources, that are unvetted, or unverified. This could pose a security risk. I can see why some companies will disable homebrew. Especially for non-developers.
- no_wizard 1y agoI think they’re specifically asking about the project as opposed to the tool
- cassianoleal 1y agoHomebrew doesn't suddenly add that capability. It just facilitates it. If nothing else, it's easier to track what's been installed via brew than whatever the user may have curlbashed or untargzed to their home.
- mort96 1y agoSo does sourceforge and GitHub and similar, are those blocked too?
- gkfasdfasdf 1y agoI hope it is faster. Homebrew operations take forever for me.
- carstenhag 1y agoOk, but then what goals do you have with it? What are you trying to solve/improve upon?
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- StopDisinfo910 1y agoGiven homebrew was strictly worse than the tool it displaced, I’m not sure it’s the right question to ask. MacOS package management is strictly marketing based.
- user82747493 1y agoThat’s not fair. Homebrew has been fantastic. It’s also open source, did they not accept your pull requests for these “improvements”?
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoThey spent months fuding MacPorts before putting in place exactly what MacPort was doing because it turns out it’s the right solution and despite that the ergonomic is still garbage (try installing packages outside of the default folder for a good laugh).
- woodruffw 1y agoWho is "they"? I've never FUDed MacPorts, and in a decade of contributing to and maintaining Homebrew I can say honestly that I've never heard any other maintainer talk much about it beyond user experience. (Beyond anything else, Homebrew's biggest "win" over MacPorts was and probably is still UX and DX. The core technology of a packaging ecosystem is rarely itself the differentiator.)
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoJust go read the original announcements of homebrew. They expend at length about how Macport was wrong for shipping its own tool chain and homebrew was somehow superior for reusing the one shipped with MacOS (guess how it turned out). The fact that most packages completely broke if installed outside of /usr/local (itself a non sensical default) was just cherry on the cake. And let’s not talk about how everything broke if you didn’t update often enough so much so that there somehow is a command to try to bring things back to sanity. Homebrew is by far the worst package manager I have ever used. I’m still sour it somehow dragged away packagers from solutions which were better in every way by being promoted as the "default" solution.
- nottorp 1y agoI doesn't have to do anything better. It's in Rust and that should be the only reason you need to switch.