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You break the idea of a declarative package by doing this you can have side effects that modify or mess with anything. This means I cannot update a package reli

You break the idea of a declarative package by doing this you can have side effects that modify or mess with anything. This means I cannot update a package reliably when it's updated because it may or may not change something.

pjscott 14y ago
Homebrew packages are Ruby files, and in practice this doesn't seem to be a problem.
- nwmcsween 14y ago
  Almost any programming language can be declarative, the problem is it allows logic as well as having a whole programming language installed instead of a simple parser.