Re:Homebrew 1.4.0
by derefr on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:57PM
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> I never know what to make of "people still use ______?!" comments
Usually people are assuming a network-effect that would make using not-Foo when Foo has "won" problematic. Like, imagine using MySpace as your social network today. It'd be a ghost town and nobody you knew would be on it.
In this case, I imagine people would expect that MacPorts either wouldn't have as wide a selection of packages, or wouldn't keep 100% of its packages constantly up-to-date, or some combination of the two.
Usually people are assuming a network-effect that would make using not-Foo when Foo has "won" problematic. Like, imagine using MySpace as your social network today. It'd be a ghost town and nobody you knew would be on it.
In this case, I imagine people would expect that MacPorts either wouldn't have as wide a selection of packages, or wouldn't keep 100% of its packages constantly up-to-date, or some combination of the two.