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PSA: Title is misleading. This is not a GUI for homebrew packages.
by egorfine 1y ago
PSA: Title is misleading. This is not a GUI for homebrew packages.
- hackmiester 1y agoWait, then what is it? The title says it's a gui for homebrew and that seems to be what it is.
- egorfine 1y agoIt's a GUI for a minor specific part of homebrew, but not for the packages.
- blacksmith_tb 1y agoCasks are more than "minor" I'd say, but it wouldn't hurt to spell it out as "a macOS native GUI for managing homebrew casks".
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- zamadatix 1y agoDid the title get changed? It just says "for homebrew", which seems to be true: "Any application that can be found in the Homebrew Catalog is available on Applite. Use the search function to find all applications in Applite." and "Can I use Applite with my existing Homebrew installation? Yes, you can."
- egorfine 1y agoYou can try this app and see for yourself that it is a GUI for a relatively unknown and minor part of homebrew and not the for actual homebrew.
- zamadatix 1y agoI have but I've been trying to figure out what you mean since e.g. Slack (from homebrew) did show for me. Based on this I take it you mean you expected the cli (core) homebrew apps to also show not just gui (casks) ones? I think that's a fair complaint, it just wasn't clear from the PSA.
- egorfine 1y agoWhat are typically the first packages you install on a fresh machine? For me these are libpng, libjpeg, xz, pigz, ccache, ninja, git. None of that is manageable via this app.
- zamadatix 1y agoFrom my current mac these show up: Slack, Beeper, 1Password, KeeWeb Teams, Chrome, Firefox, Signal, Zoom, Sublime, iTerm2. I have very little in the way of other apps except the defaults + a few only available on the official App Store. Most all of my 3rd party CLI stuff is in Linux, via iTerm2+built in SSH.