Does anyone know of a good comparison of the process to add a package to the system? I've used multiples of these sorts of user-land package managers and always find tools that aren't in the repositories that I have to install manually. It'd be great to just add these tools to an existing package manager but I've never seen this aspect of these package managers compared.
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
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Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#122Awesome! Thank you for the update. I noticed that homebrew updated _all_ my casks when running 'brew upgrade' (even those with "auto_updates: true" in their Cask JSON API). Is this intended, new default behavior? This did not use to happen...
This sort of overly eager upgrading has caused me a lot of problems over the years. I really wish it didn't default to updating the entire world just because you want to update one package.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.
> quite annoying It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#124did google apologize for not hiring you?
You’re thinking of mxcl, the creator, not me.
I also applied and failed a final stage job interview at Google (and various other places over the years) but never really bothered me that much.
Ironically I think I’d probably never have started working on Homebrew if it had.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#125I have switched my full OS-level dev env to https://mise.jdx.dev/ from Homebrew+pipx+npm, initially as an experiment but found out that it actually works amazingly well. Many things get installed directly from GitHub releases or a corresponding package manager (uv, pnpm, go get ...), zero glue code to "repackage", zero version lag. You can install any arbitrary version of a package, even multiple ones at once, and dy…
Hmm, `mise use -g docker-cli` works for me. `docker compose` is a bit trickier – it gets installed as `docker-cli-plugin-docker-compose`, but docker-cli doesn’t seem to pick it up. I’ve added a symlink as `docker-compose` for the time being.
Also using brew for casks, and I think there’s a couple tools I couldn’t install with mise (e.g. pngpaste and zbar for scanning QR codes from screenshots).
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#126I have switched my full OS-level dev env to https://mise.jdx.dev/ from Homebrew+pipx+npm, initially as an experiment but found out that it actually works amazingly well. Many things get installed directly from GitHub releases or a corresponding package manager (uv, pnpm, go get ...), zero glue code to "repackage", zero version lag. You can install any arbitrary version of a package, even multiple ones at once, and dy…
As a PHP developer, I found mise's support to be pretty sub-par compared to Shivam Mathur's packaging work for homebrew. Most of my projects are using Docker anyway, the local PHP is for stuff like static analysis that doesn't need it. And I've got a couple using Nix, which laughs at everything else (but damn, the overall UX is still even more hostile than git).
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#127Well, I might as well ask my tech support question here :)
I just ran the upgrade to 6.0.0, and it downloaded so many things concurrently that it killed my wifi (old router). Is there a way to cap bandwidth or maximum concurrent connections? (this is something I have to do in many download heavy apps, e.g., steam)
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#128Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!
Homebrew is so good that I use it on Linux whenever possible. Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. This makes cleaning up your workstation nearly impossible and a pain in the ass, since you can't tell what should be removed, or more importantly, what can be removed. Also, most native package managers update much slower than Homebrew, meaning you often only get outd…
Homebrew is the default on Bluefin Linux since most of the system is immutable. I like it since I’m so used to it on my Mac.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#129> The master to main migration begun in 4.6.0 continues: more repositories no longer update master, GitHub Actions warn @master users to migrate to @main and the sync-default-branches workflows are removed
Speaking of important things.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
The concept of a "userspace package manager" is something I would expect Linux to have figured out twenty years ago. It's ridiculous that the usual situation for non-root users is "you can't install XY but feel free to build from source". Homebrew, Mise and Nix are filling that hole now. (Flatpak is more oriented towards GUI apps, and Snap... exists.)
In Debian-Ubuntu it's become a standard pattern to use `curl` or `wget` to add a third-party `deb` repo with keychain integration, because for whatever reason there's still no `apt` command for this obvious scenario. Really grinds my gears.
Doesn't apt-add-repository do all that?