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Can you provide some examples of where you think homebrew has a better UI than apt-get? I can't think of anything in homebrew which feels significantly easier t

• dljsjr 13y ago
  `brew search` + `brew info` is about a million times more sane than `apt-cache show`, which I find sucks (is usually too aggressive or too specific in its fuzzy matching) and is poorly named. Plus, why the hell have apt-get and apt-cache separated in to two commands? Insane. The output of a `brew install` command is much easier to parse than the output of a `apt-get install` command. So is the output of a `--dry-run`. The UI for dependency conflict resolution in `apt-get` is bizarre. And the one in `aptitude` isn't much better. I also like that brew is built on git. This is part of the UI for managing versions (the other being the semi-undocumented and unpublicized `brew switch` command), and `brew` is a lot more understanding of being able to switch between versions of packages on the fly.