> The problem it is trying to solve would be better approached hosting Debian, RHEL etc repositories which mirror each other in their structure. I disagree, an

> The problem it is trying to solve would be better approached hosting Debian, RHEL etc repositories which mirror each other in their structure. I disagree, and I think Linuxbrew fills a different niche. When you install something from your distro's package manager, you are actually installing another program that happens to come with the operating system. This has two implications: - It's usually fixed at a particular version for that distro release. - It's installed into the root filesystem or /usr. When you compile something from source or download a pre-compiled .tar.gz, on the other hand, it's not something that came with the operating system, it's a third-party package installed by the administrator, and the rules are a bit different: - You usually grab the latest version or a very specific version from the vendor's website. - The correct place to put it is usually in /usr/local. This is where the FreeBSD ports tree puts programs, and this is also where Homebrew puts programs in the OSX version at least. Assuming that Linuxbrew does the same thing, I believe Linuxbrew aims to be the ports tree equivalent for Linux.