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alexykn

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    Comment #45423693

    Problem: My path is a mess and I got annoyed with cargo / different toolchains etc. often being the wrong executables I also am building a package manager on the side so swapping b…

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    Comment #43811450

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    Comment #43775819

    I know nix, did use nix-darwin for a while and actually integrated my own scripts called from the flake into setting up my system xD

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    Comment #43775207

    love uv <3 I will look into integrating that. Have not decided if and how to implement my own packaging / source build dsl though and will probably open a git poll for that the com…

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    Comment #43775154

    on github xD

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    Comment #43775150

    Yeah, this would 100% be feasible. Great idea. It's during the week now so I don't have much time besides work. I'll probably open a Poll on git within the next couple days about w…

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    Comment #43767040

    I'll add manual override flags and also let users not only build from source from formulae but any dir on their machine they want, only makes sense

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    Comment #43766185

    command: why install htop, -> install start: because you wan' it -> done: you got it Something like that you mean?

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    Comment #43766171

    I know, probably will, also feel typing out sapphire for the command all the time is annoying + sapp would be weird. For me technical implementation comes first though. I'll do tha…

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    Comment #43766153

    Initial idea for this really came from my dayjob too, we have macs but no way to centrally manage them. The client / server part for the declarative system manager I want to build …

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    Comment #43766117

    Anyway, please do not expect progress to be too rapid. I have a full time job and do most work on this on weekends. I fully intend to make it a stable, "finished" (as much as this …

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    Comment #43766060

    Some reason I just died laughing. Really struggled with all that stuff while building this, just seemed to make no sense in the beginning. Maybe I should do /opt/sapphire/cave, opt…

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    Comment #43765961

    Looked at that. I do not really think implementing something like artichoke or rutie would be a good idea. I do not want my project to become overly bloated and to achieve my real …

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    Comment #43765667

    I will probably change the terminology at some point for this. For initially building it it is way easier to keep them the same though as trying to understand brew itself (at least…

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    Comment #43765603

    Building from source, obviously, will never be really that much more performant as it mainly relies on the underlying build systems and things like ninja, cmake, cargo etc. are usu…

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    Comment #43765346

    Hey, so I built this thing, most of it at so far at least. And yeah, right now it isn't doing many things better than Homebrew. Setting of relative paths for bottle installs is sti…