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Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by Nursie on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:01AM (#12547742)
Why?

By which I mean that apt is fantastic AFAICT and totally integrated into Ubuntu and Debian. Why would you want a third party package manager?

Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by bm5k on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:44AM (#12548586)
The apt user experience is terrible compared with brew.
Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by Nursie on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:18AM (#12548950)
How so?

The interface seems more or less identical to me.

I'm not going to deny it's good and brings great stuff to the Mac, I'm just not seeing the advantages.

Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by bm5k on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:26PM (#12549668)
Other than "in every way possible"?

The only thing that is as easy in apt as brew is installing packages.

Searching, getting info about a package, updating the list of available packages, are all much easier with homebrew.

Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by kasabali on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:11AM (#12589319)
> Searching

apt search ....

> getting info about a package

apt show <package>

> updating the list of available packages

apt update

> are all much easier with homebrew

You gotta be kidding me

Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 by saurik on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:48PM (#12551081)
A reasonable thing to do would be to decide what the deficiencies are and first try to talk to the developers of APT about fixing them, and then as a second (lesser) option potentially deciding to make a higher-level wrapper or supplementary tool which helps these use cases. A totally unreasonable thing to do would be to attempt to replace the entire APT ecosystem with a different tool.