Re:Mcfly – neural-network powered directory and context-awar...
by staycoolboy on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:06PM
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It depends on the package.
Some folks want the newest and brew might update faster than Debian, e.g., Cmake was at 3.10 on Ubuntu for the longest time but Brew had it at 3.15.
Me personally, I've run into waaaaaaaaay too many issues trying to run more than one package manager. The best solution I've encountered: use the native package manager first, and if you need a new version of something, build it manually BUT SAVE THE BUILD DIRECTORY for uninstall.
(My favourite bug was autoconf tools requiring dependencies that were mixed between brew and macports: each one required the other to be first in the PATH!!)
Some folks want the newest and brew might update faster than Debian, e.g., Cmake was at 3.10 on Ubuntu for the longest time but Brew had it at 3.15.
Me personally, I've run into waaaaaaaaay too many issues trying to run more than one package manager. The best solution I've encountered: use the native package manager first, and if you need a new version of something, build it manually BUT SAVE THE BUILD DIRECTORY for uninstall.
(My favourite bug was autoconf tools requiring dependencies that were mixed between brew and macports: each one required the other to be first in the PATH!!)