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Re:Packagers don't know best by dman on Friday June 21, 2013 @05:49PM (#5921239)
Can you imagine using OSX as a development box without homebrew?
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Re:Packagers don't know best by nosequel on Friday June 21, 2013 @05:52PM (#5921251)
No, but homebrew doesn't break things up into an insane number of pieces either. In the context of this blog post, Riak on homebrew is a single package.
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Re:Packagers don't know best by hosay123 on Friday June 21, 2013 @08:18PM (#5921930)
Yes, and my /usr/local isn't a freaking .git repository. Homebrew, bikeshedding what MacPorts achieved a decade previous (and getting it horribly wrong) since 2009
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Re:Packagers don't know best by randallsquared on Friday June 21, 2013 @09:49PM (#5922195)
If by "achieved", you mean "aspired to". MacPorts never actually seemed to correctly build the things I needed. Of course, I gave up before 2009.
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Re:Packagers don't know best by schmonz on Friday June 21, 2013 @09:08PM (#5922082)
Sure, pkgsrc has made it easy to manage third-party software on Mac OS X for over a decade. Lots of other platforms too, with root or without. Homebrew is cool, but I'm pretty happy about being able to use the same package manager everywhere I go.
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Re:Packagers don't know best by skybrian on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:52PM (#5921820)
Yes. Never used homebrew. Not sure I'm missing anything.
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Re:Packagers don't know best by malkia on Friday June 21, 2013 @09:44PM (#5922177)
MacPorts all the way, since it's sane.
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