Re:An independent package manager that every hacker deserves
by akdor1154 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @08:51PM
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I've started using it as a goto for vendor tooling (go, node, etc), great experience so far and will likely continue.
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Re:An independent package manager that every hacker deserves
by pzmarzly on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:29PM
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I've been using Linuxbrew for few months last year, it was always hit-or-miss whether some tool will work or if it will be macOS only recipe.
Then I started using aarch64 CPUs, and Linuxbrew still doesn't work on those. Bummer.
So while I'd love to see a package manager that spans all Linux distros, Homebrew is not it, at least for now. Nix may be it, but it has its own interesting issues at times.
I recently used distrobox to run Arch Linux container on Fedora host and it was a good experience. I did not try exposing the CLIs from there to the host OS but it sounds possible https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d... . I don't want to daily-drive Arch again, but it's a great project to install fresh versions of various CLI tools from.