Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
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Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
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Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#2Does it reinstall postgres for every package install?
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#3Does it reinstall postgres for every package install?
(report card for an0malous): "Does not play nice with other students."
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#4Does it reinstall postgres for every package install?
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 will disable this (annoying) behavior. Set it in your bashrc or zshrc.
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#5This might be a good thing for homebrew to adopt for the download/install process, but if it doesn't include a ruby interpreter, I have a hard time seeing how it's going to be compatible with anything but searching and installing bottles. I install most of my packages from a Brewfile, which itself is Ruby code.
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#6If it doesn’t ever execute Ruby: it cannot be compatible with Homebrew. “Compatible” is doing a bit of work here when it also means “implicitly relies on Homebrew’s CDN, CI, packaging infrastructure and maintainers who keep all this running”.
There’s a new vibe coded Homebrew frontend with partial compatibility and improved speed every few weeks.
Homebrew is working on an official Rust frontend that will actually have full compatibility. Hopefully this will help share effort across the wider ecosystem.
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#7This feels like a solution looking for a problem. I have a couple hundred brew packages on my system and I’ve never sat there thinking “If this was only 2 seconds faster…” while doing an update. I’m sure the Homebrew folks could mine this for a few ideas of how to further optimize brew, but I don’t think I’ll be adopting it anytime soon. Compatibility is more important than speed in this case.
Re: Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
#8I've been looking for something like this, especially to use only with casks now that Homebrew has removed support for not adding the quarantine bit. Looking forward to giving it a try!
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