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Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

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Re: Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

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Post by kragen »

I don't understand what this means, although I've read the whole thread. Does this mean people won't be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source (and run it)? Does it mean that they'll be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source, but not download prebuilt binaries (and run them)? Does it mean that they'll be able to download prebuilt binaries, but only run them if they're built by a developer that Apple has blessed?

I do understand that the effect is only to make Intel Macs adopt the same behavior ARM64 Macs already had, but I don't understand what that behavior is.

I see that someone named andrewmcwatters has posted a [dead] reply to my comment that doesn't answer my questions, just repeating the same jargon from the bug report that I don't know the meaning of.

Re: Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

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Post by superkuh »

It may be Apple policy to prevent users from doing what they want because "security" is the most important thing for a their bank/shopping terminals. But I thought the whole point of using homebrew was to empower the user to use Apple devices like a normal computer without the hassle of having to do it manually? The developer has made it clear this is not the use case and that it helped with it was unintentional and undesired. The actual use case for homebrew remains unclear given this new information.

Re: Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

kragen wrote: post #3

I don't understand what this means, although I've read the whole thread. Does this mean people won't be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source (and run it)? Does it mean that they'll be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source, but not download prebuilt binaries (and run them)? Does it mean that they'll be able to download prebuilt binaries, but only run them if they're built by a developer…

Casks won’t be able to bypass Gatekeeper, so now you can’t launch .apps from brew that aren’t notarized.

So, you might as well just use the App Store.

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