Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

Post by wvenable » Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 7:35 AM UTC

tacker2000 wrote: post #14

Homebrew is not really pro in any way: they force updates, deprecate old software that is still widely in use, the maintainers are always very combative and dont allow any discussions or other opinions. In the end it's a package manager for consumers that hand holds you and is not really useful in a pro context. I've been meaning to jump to macports anyway, maybe ill do it now...

Post by angulardragon03 » Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 8:24 AM UTC

alwillis wrote: post #131

queenkjuul wrote: post #98

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Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM and Apple is dropping boot camp support alongside x86 support in the near future.

> Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM That's totally up to Microsoft… they could done a licensing deal with Apple years ago to enable Windows ARM to run natively on Apple Silicon hardware.

Post by Vegenoid » Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 8:37 AM UTC

nbobko wrote: post #86

Hehe, the classic rude and mean behavior from homebrew maintainers. I get their motivation to remove the flag. In fact, it has always been better to run xattr in postinstall, this way the binary is free from quarantine even after updates. But the way they communicate with people is unacceptable and just unnecessary.

Post by alwillis » Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 8:39 AM UTC

alwillis wrote: post #132

queenkjuul wrote: post #103

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Apple loves to change which tools they ship, too, it at least have for the last few years as system updates were routinely breaking our build scripts at work, mostly when Apple would replace a GNU tool with a BSD tool without warning i think. I agree though, Finder is a joke, the macOS system preferences has gotten incredibly cluttered and hard to use, the ever stricter code signing and download-opening restrictions…

> Apple loves to change which tools they ship, too, it at least have for the last few years as system updates were routinely breaking our build scripts at work, mostly when Apple would replace a GNU tool with a BSD tool without warning i think. It's a licensing issue; Apple has never shipped GPLv3 software. This has been discussed dozens of times on HN. Of course you can use Homebrew to install a GNU toolchain to you…

Post by bzzzt » Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

nake89 wrote: post #167

ryandrake wrote: post #44

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As someone who migrated from macports to Homebrew, I'd like to see a third option (or maybe re-investigate macports again to see what's changed recently). Homebrew's insistence on leaving OSes behind that they deem to be "too old" is becoming a problem as the years click by. One of the reasons to use third party software and a third party package manager is to avoid Apple's own insistence on abandoning old OSes. Home…

"Homebrew's insistence on leaving OSes behind that they deem to be "too old" is becoming a problem as the years click by" Indeed! I have a VERY usable Macbook Pro from 2015. Even with the newest version supported macOS version (11) Big Sur (which is still quite modern) it doesn't have any binaries for apps, which means it has to compile every single app and dependency. I managed to update to macOS 14 (with the help o…