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Speaking of which, is anyone working on allowing Homebrew itself to do binary package management? The lack of binary package management is one of the main reaso
by zhemao 13y ago
Speaking of which, is anyone working on allowing Homebrew itself to do binary package management? The lack of binary package management is one of the main reasons I give when people ask me why I mainly use Linux on my Macbook Air. I understand this will add the complication of needing to host the binaries somewhere, but it would be quite useful, since some packages take a long time to compile.
- meikyo 13y agoIt already has this kind of functionality, it is called bottles and most of the bigger packages like Qt are already available as binaries. Recently I've noticed that some of the smaller ones are also becoming available which is nice.
- zhemao 13y agoOh cool! I did not know that. I'll still be sticking to Arch Linux though. I'd have a hard time adapting to using a non-tiling window manager full time.
- bwilliams 13y agoI moved from a tiling WM to OS X a few years back with no big issues. Even then there are partial solutions such as https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- onedognight 13y agoIt already has binaries. The current problem is that most of the binaries are dependent on the prefix being "/usr/local", and those that aren't need to be marked as such by hand. Search for "cellar :any" in your formulas: grep -r "cellar :any" $(brew --prefix)/Library/Formula I get 22/2597 that are prefix independent.