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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.