Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux?

Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by grumps on Sunday October 20, 2013 @12:07PM (#6580302)

Why wouldn't you use the package manager that your distro comes with?

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Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by hrkristian on Sunday October 20, 2013 @12:45PM (#6580448)

I'm limited by my phone atm, but does this thing have a GUI?

Using Arch I'm in love with Pacman and AUR, and apt and the other package managers are great/just fine too. They aren't exactly hard to learn so the only way I see Homebrew being needed is if it provides a great GUI with more accessible depth compared to existing alternatives.

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Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by grumps on Sunday October 20, 2013 @04:54PM (#6581435)

If you're going to run Arch then you should really stick with being comfortable with the CLI. There's no telling when something will break the upstream GUI packages, or something wont load on boot and you're stuck in single user mode.

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Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by zalew on Sunday October 20, 2013 @04:41PM (#6581376)

> I'm limited by my phone atm, but does this thing have a GUI?

apt has synaptic

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Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by chc on Monday October 21, 2013 @08:18PM (#6589054)

Homebrew for Mac doesn't, so it would be odd for this one to.

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Re:Ask HN: Homebrew for Linux? by coherentpony on Sunday October 20, 2013 @12:16PM (#6580336)

This is exactly the same question I had.

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