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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by fishywang on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:08AM (#26037788)
I already stopped using Mac, but for people still using Mac: you really should give nixpkgs a try.
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by milch on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:34AM (#26038100)
+1. I’ve been using it for a while, and it fixes my problems with homebrew - mostly that homebrew breaks features every couple of weeks in small point releases, which you get automatically upgraded to
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by NegativeLatency on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:51AM (#26038327)
Auto upgrade sucks but it is possible to turn it off
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by fishywang on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:53AM (#26038343)
But then what? You still have to deal with the mess when you do manual upgrades.
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by theshrike79 on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:22AM (#26061687)
Nix seems to be the Crossfit of the computing world.

How do you know someone uses Nix? They'll tell you :D

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