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0 pointskowlo2y ago0 comments

Perhaps they are talking about Homebrew the package manager [1].

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I wonder what people mean when they say "Homebrew is pretty great", I do not wonder what they mean when they say "Homebrew".

orf2y ago

They mean that they have an overall positive opinion of Homebrew, more than “not bad” but less than “amazing”.

dividedbyzero2y ago

As someone who would readily say that Homebrew is pretty great, this is exactly how I feel about Homebrew.

anonymoushn2y ago

For example people do not use homebrew to install python3 on a fresh install of mac os and get a python that spews a bunch of messages to stderr about the version of libc6.so and cannot speak TLS.

sofixa2y ago

It only upgrades PostgreSQL 3 major versions up alongside without asking.

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hizanberg2y ago

It does what it says on the tin and installs the plethora of software available on homebrew with a simple command, which is pretty great

pdpi2y ago

It's plenty solid, and there's a good library of packages on there. It's a package manager, doesn't take more than that.

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