Post #3771211
2026-07-12 22:36 UTC
@kbob@chaos.social the one other thing I’d note about HomeBrew (which I also don’t like) is they aggressively deprecate older OS / architectures (eg x86-64 likely has only a few months support left).
It’s also basically (unreproducible) binary only as far as what’s supported (you *can* build from source yourself but it’s both strongly discouraged and officially unsupported).
So at this point I’d only install HomeBrew onto macOS / Apple silicon.
https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-12 23:16
@ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz If you had to start over, would you stay with Homebrew over the alternatives (MacPorts, Nix, install everything ad hoc)?