Re:Homebrew 3.0
by faitswulff on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:56AM
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Also any random operation can take 20 minutes to complete if you haven't used brew in a while.
Re:Homebrew 3.0
by upbeat_general on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:34PM
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You can disable this but I agree, I hate it.
This comment actually just spurred me to find this (https://gist.github.com/jb510/99f12b1ac70f1cf8b780) which may fix the issue of forgetting to manually update.
I understand why they did it, but it’s super annoying.
Given the intervals between running Homebrew, you just know it’s going to spin for a minute or two updating every damn time you try to use it, usually when you want something installed fast.
Have you tried MacPorts?
Re:Homebrew 3.0
by Benjamin_Dobell on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:39AM
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Not in about 8 years. I do most of my development in Docker these days so tend to make use of Linux package managers.
Homebrew excels as a mechanism to install the latest software, if you don't care about breaking things. However, traditionally a package manager's job is to ensure that if you've installed something, it'll continue to run.
If you've ever updated readline via Homebrew, you can pretty much just watch everything burn.
If you've ever tried to use an old version of Postgres, good luck. Particularly if you're wanting to mix and match versions of PostGIS.
If you're running an old version of macOS, you're out in the cold. Although, I must admit, recently this seems to be handled much better.