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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by coldtea on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:10PM (#14241633)
>Yay more words and concepts to add to my cognitive load. We already have established terms for these things but why use package and repository when you can invent tableturd and puddlecuddle?

Why volunteerily start, develop, and maintain a package manager and its repository, if random people are gonna try to dictate even how you name your packages?

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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by mixedCase on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:14PM (#14241687)
Here we go again with another variation of "it's free so you are not allowed to criticize it".

Can we move on as a community and drop this?

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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by joshmanders on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:17PM (#14241723)
It's free and you are allowed to criticize it.

But we're also allowed to criticize your criticism too.

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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by thatswrong0 on Monday May 01, 2017 @06:18PM (#14242239)
One is legitimate criticism: "It would be easier to use this software if it used more conventional naming."

The other isn't even close: "Instead of criticizing this free software, write your own".

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Re:Homebrew 1.2.0 by gech on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:30PM (#14243314)
Disagree and commit - Bezos
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