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0 pointsyamtaddle3y ago0 comments

Linux user since 2000 or so. Mandrake, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, all heavily, with a little use of some other distros (Void, Arch, probably some others I'm forgetting about).

All around, Brew's my favorite package manager I've used. And yes, I started with Macports, so I've used that too.

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Steltek3y ago

Why? Objectively, it has huge flaws compared to Linux package managers (permissions, sudo, capricious renaming of binaries).

yamtaddleOP3y ago

Been using it since 2012 or 2013 across a half-dozen devices and I'm not sure what you mean by any of that.

Steltek3y ago

You can 'rm /usr/local/bin/*' without sudo. Or replace /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/brew with something malicious. That's laughable and I don't know how it gets a pass from everyone.

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0 pointsyamtaddle3y ago0 comments

Linux user since 2000 or so. Mandrake, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, all heavily, with a little use of some other distros (Void, Arch, probably some others I'm forgetting about).

All around, Brew's my favorite package manager I've used. And yes, I started with Macports, so I've used that too.

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Steltek3y ago

Why? Objectively, it has huge flaws compared to Linux package managers (permissions, sudo, capricious renaming of binaries).

yamtaddleOP3y ago

Been using it since 2012 or 2013 across a half-dozen devices and I'm not sure what you mean by any of that.

Steltek3y ago

You can 'rm /usr/local/bin/*' without sudo. Or replace /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/brew with something malicious. That's laughable and I don't know how it gets a pass from everyone.

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