I've been using Homebrew for about a week. It reminds me of the early days of Gentoo, a very simple system that makes it easy to add your own packages (which i

I've been using Homebrew for about a week. It reminds me of the early days of Gentoo, a very simple system that makes it easy to add your own packages (which is good because the current selection is fairly slim compared to the alternatives). It's basically a nice way to manage locally complied packages, but it doesn't do a lot for you. For example, once you install MySQL you'll have to do any post setup yourself, like adding a mysql user, creating the initial database and setting it to start on boot.