Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by sswastioyono18 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:13AM
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I'm surprised people still use postgresql from homebrew. Like honestly, I use brew for any CLI command only like zsh and git. Well maybe some programming language as well but I would never, ever install database with it unless I'm desperate. Anything that can be dockerized, just use docker.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by ratww on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:21AM
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Postgres from Homebrew used to work extremely well. It was faster and more reliable than Docker, not to mention lighter on your machine.
Now, it's unusable.
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by physicsguy on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:22AM
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If you've only got a Mac with 256gb of storage, then throwing away ~100gb on containers is a nightmare
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by smoldesu on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:35AM
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...because your other 156 gigs are being eaten up by Xcode. Seriously, why the hell does Apple even sell 256gb laptops these days?
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by physicsguy on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:24AM
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For me it's just my personal one I've had for a few years, I couldn't really afford to spend more when I bought it as I was a student. I think the new MBPs start at 512gb now
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by latortuga on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:52AM
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I use and love Postgres.app on macOS, separate instances of lots of versions of postgres at the click of a button.
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by DemocracyFTW on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:21PM
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Docker has a considerable barrier to entry if you've never used it before. Flatpack has horrible download sizes and result in non-standard invocation command lines.