Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
by robenkleene on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:29PM
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I use a `brew bundle` to help manage this. Make a `Brewfile` listing homebrew installs, then `brew bundle cleanup` to delete everything that's not in that file. This way I can try something out and easily delete it (and the dependencies it installed). It also obviously makes it easy to setup a new machine.
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
by numbsafari on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:36PM
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This has been my MO with home brew as well. But it’s not perfect. Unix-style apps don’t always behave nicely when it comes to cleanup and it’s easy to get borked, not to mention the difficulties that the homebrew folks go through each time there’s a new release of Mac OS. I really think the writing is on the wall and we’d all be better off dumping homebrew and just using VMs.