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Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? by mbesto on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:59AM (#29083146)
> Homebrew is old and it needs to be replaced. It has served its time.

You are more than welcome to build your own alternative. Homebrew is open source and volunteer run. I'm sure there is a very valid reason requests like this get shot down.

No wonder open source maintainers hate dealing with people like you.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? by systemvoltage on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:37PM (#29089619)
I don't hate it, I just think there is room to improve. Also, no need to accuse me of not understanding open source development. I am thankful to you and others, at the same time it is I think OK to say it needs to improve. Although, I believe like a lot of technology pieces that sometimes it is not worth improving - just start from scratch. There is a lot of baggage with Homebrew.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? by pxc on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:47PM (#29090553)
It seems this is the issue in question: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186

The maintainer did close they issue but they didn't lock the thread. If there was a very valid reason the request got shot down, it went unstated afaict. (Fair enough if they just don't allow feature requests on the issue tracker, I guess)

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