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Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Your comment hits on a lot of the points that motivated me to create homebrew-emacs in the first place. For me,

by edavis 12y ago

Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Your comment hits on a lot of the points that motivated me to create homebrew-emacs in the first place. For me, Homebrew is a pleasure to use. It's stable, robust, sensible, and has a great community around it. ELPA, on the other hand, never seemed to have the same polish. Maybe with enough time and energy I could have configured ELPA to my liking. But that prospect never appealed to me when I have a perfectly good package manager I already use for everything else just sitting there.

hollerith 12y ago
Yes, the last time I installed OS X, I didn't even bother to install MacPorts (or any other package manager). The only package manager I currently use is Homebrew. If I ever switch from OS X to Linux, I will almost certainly need to switch package managers at the same, which is no big deal: I've used RPM, dpkg, apt, pacman and Arch Build System in the past, and I am extremely confident that I could bend them to my will in the future. Again, I want to stress that I think certain parts of Emacs are great. package.el on the other hand did not impress me enough for me to want to spend even one more hour learning about it. I would guess I have something between 5 and 50 hours invested in learning about package managers written in Emacs Lisp up to today. (All of those hours were spent learning about package.el or whatever the correct name of it is.)