Re:"ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to M...
by ljm on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:06PM
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Before going to Windows, I left Homebrew and went back to Macports for a couple of years.
It did everything I needed and while you might argue that writing a Ruby formula is easier than packaging something for Macports, it was a feature I never really needed compared to the ability to easily install specific versions of software going as far back as I needed. Much more akin to the Debian approach, but with faster updates for newer versions.
But, as a hacker, I agree. If it's not neatly wrapped up for you by a package manager then you're perfectly equipped to pull down a prebuilt binary from a repo or compile it from source. If I felt at the whim of the apt package manager I'd still be complaining about the lack of XDG support in tmux, instead of wget'ing a tarball and doing a good old make && make install.
It did everything I needed and while you might argue that writing a Ruby formula is easier than packaging something for Macports, it was a feature I never really needed compared to the ability to easily install specific versions of software going as far back as I needed. Much more akin to the Debian approach, but with faster updates for newer versions.
But, as a hacker, I agree. If it's not neatly wrapped up for you by a package manager then you're perfectly equipped to pull down a prebuilt binary from a repo or compile it from source. If I felt at the whim of the apt package manager I'd still be complaining about the lack of XDG support in tmux, instead of wget'ing a tarball and doing a good old make && make install.