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0 pointsmdaniel4y ago0 comments

> But truly, I got the best results from downloading and compiling every single flipping dependency myself.

My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due to everyone in the known universe thinking they need some awesome new build system, partially due to unknown dependencies and their versions, partially due to it usually needing some patches because they only build on the author's machine, and all of that is just noise when I just want to have something running

The value of Homebrew to me are the constantly bumped formulae descriptors, definitely, 100% NOT the "brew" frontend for it. So, I've found a nice middle-ground by switching Homebrew into developer mode and neutering its bottle system and using "--build-from-source"

This isn't necessarily to lobby you, as much as "for your consideration" and to raise awareness for others that one need not throw the baby out with the bathwater just because the brew frontend is user-hostle

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BruceEel4y ago

> My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due to everyone in the known universe thinking they need some awesome new build system [...]

Aye, This is particularly impacting when the build system itself needs to be eh built.

> The value of Homebrew to me are the constantly bumped formulae descriptors, definitely, 100% NOT the "brew" frontend for it. [...] and using "--build-from-source"

I hadn't thought about that and I suspect you are right. Although I lack recent exposure to it and I can certainly recall getting very annoyed by it, I have to say that my experience with Gentoo's Portage/emerge is by far the least unpleasant as dealing with package managers goes.

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