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Re:Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf by SwellJoe on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:58AM (#9366288)
I wrote about this, after spending a few days looking into Homebrew. Homebrew is not just a bad package manager, it is a dangerous package manager. No one should be using it on a server, ever. Server use is all I care about.

http://inthebox.webmin.com/homebrew-package-installation-for...

Also, there was some discussion here about the Linux port of Homebrew (which is also a terrible idea):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346464

Re:Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf by fit2rule on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:40AM (#9366868)
I would love to just have one package manager for all these systems. If the adoption of pkgsrc takes off, I'll be very happy to delete my brew install. Every time it updates, I wonder if its such a great idea ..