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Nice. Now add "brew cask" support (https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask basically brew for GUI apps) and I could see
by tlrobinson 13y ago
Nice. Now add "brew cask" support (https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask basically brew for GUI apps) and I could see non-developers using it as well.
- akerl_ 13y agoHah, I was going to ask if they planned to add a formula to homebrew-cask so that I could use it to install Cakebrew.
- blktiger 13y agoI checked cask before I downloaded Cakebrew. :P
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- avree 13y agoWhat's the point of homebrew cask? Why is it any easier than finding an app I need and installing it normally?
- bombtrack 13y agoSame reason people love package managers in general. A single bash script can install all the programs you want. Add Homebrew Cask and even your GUI apps can be included in that script alongside wget, vnstat, whatever.
- avree 13y agoMakes sense to me! Probably not worth re-installing programs I already have, though, would you agree?
- bombtrack 13y agoYea, I only do a "brew cask search" for new apps I want to install. I believe you would want to avoid attempting to re-install an app via Cask that was installed normally (~/Applications vs /Applications). Personally, I would do a clean install to transition an app to being managed by Cask.
- MarkTee 13y agoI agree. Isn't Homebrew primarily used to install CLI tools? Sure you have things like compilers/programming languages, but with the frequency that you install those types of things it doesn't make sense to use a dedicated app. For somebody with an aversion to the command line I think the only reason to use Homebrew would be Cask.