News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on On switching to Arch Linux. Parent comment

Re:On switching to Arch Linux by MatthewPhillips on Friday January 27, 2012 @12:26PM (#3519107)
Mac has major package management issues. Homebrew is fine (not as good as the linux counterparts, but fine), but if you make the mistake of installing Ruby with RVM Homebrew won't work, and you will spend a lot of time fixing it. With Arch you just have to get your basics set up and any development related item you need, there are precompiled packages you will install in seconds.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:On switching to Arch Linux by ConstantineXVI on Friday January 27, 2012 @03:00PM (#3519883)
I've found RVM in general to be pretty temperamental; regardless of OS. rbenv[1] seems much saner.

[1] https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:On switching to Arch Linux by MatthewPhillips on Sunday January 29, 2012 @10:21AM (#3525346)
Perhaps, my point was that if you screw up your Ruby installation on Mac it is a pain to get things right again. RVM is the recommended way to install Ruby according to ruby-lang.org.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:On switching to Arch Linux by schwabacher on Friday January 27, 2012 @01:51PM (#3519536)
Ruby / RVM hasn't broken homebrew for me (thank god!)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:On switching to Arch Linux by MatthewPhillips on Sunday January 29, 2012 @10:20AM (#3525342)
Homebrew expects ruby to be installed at /usr/bin. RVM installs it in ~/.rvm/bin/ruby-$VERSION. Even if you symlink there are compatibility problems. I'm sure it's fixable, but non-trivially so.
[ Parent | on HN ]