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Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by oefrha on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:03AM (#12547371)
To be clear: I'm only talking about core here. If you try to compile external software against brewed libraries, of course you may run into problems, but we do have the homebrew/versions tap, and you can always host your own taps for outdated libraries.
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Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by rogual on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:35AM (#12547591)
Thanks for responding. Yeah, my package isn't in core, although it seems I would just have a different problem if it were (upgrade to YourLib 2.0 or get boneyarded)

I get that it's all a tradeoff, and it must to help keep complexity down if brew is latest-everything.

New versions stuff looks good. I'll look into the versions tap too.

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Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by oefrha on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:34AM (#12548491)
> I would just have a different problem if it were (upgrade to YourLib 2.0 or get boneyarded)

In core this is true. In your own tap you can vendor your dependencies however you want.

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