• smoothbrain coldtakes
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    1 year ago

    Okay but it’s like, what other package managers exist on MacOS?

    Obviously they’re going to include Homebrew to fulfill dependencies in a more curated way than just bringing them down with the installer itself.

    • Derin
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      31 year ago

      I guess I don’t really like the idea of a large company using a tool like Homebrew, I feel at that point they should write/include their own package manager.

      I might be sounding pedantic, so feel free to ignore me if you’re a Homebrew fan, but it just irks me that the package manager is installed via curl’ing a shell script from their github project, and that the entire repo itself is stored on Github.

      Even Microsoft has winget; dunno why a company the size of Apple can’t just roll a proper, secure way to distribute packages.

      Also, as far as other package managers go, there’s Macports.

      • smoothbrain coldtakes
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        51 year ago

        They have a proper, secure way to distribute packages - the app store. It just happens to be a GUI solution and not a CLI one.

        • Derin
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          21 year ago

          Sure, exactly. So why do I need to install a third party CLI package manager for a first party suite of tools?

          Like, xcode-select is able to grab dependencies. There’s no reason why a similar binary can’t be delivered with the porting sdk.

    • Satelllliiiiiiiteeee
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      21 year ago

      There’s MacPorts but Homebrew is by far the most common package manager on MacOS. I wouldn’t use Homebrew on Linux personally but it’s great on Mac