<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra">They've really started to run into the same problems that MacPorts solved long ago. Considering the their page title is "Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!", I find pleasure in their difficulty. The only thing I wish we did that they do is git. But we don't forbid it, so eh. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>—Mark<br>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:emer@emer.net" target="_blank">emer@emer.net</a>><br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Arno Hautala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arno@alum.wpi.edu" target="_blank">arno@alum.wpi.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Art McGee <<a href="mailto:amcgee@gmail.com">amcgee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="">> Homebrew is mainly intended to be used by developers who use their system<br>
> almost exclusively for development. They are unconcerned with the effects of<br>
> mucking with /usr/local and it's ownership or permissions.<br>
<br>
</div>I know this is getting off topic, but I disagree with this assessment.<br>
While I'm sure there are developers that use Homebrew, I think the<br>
primary audience is the average user who "just wants it to work" (I'm<br>
sure that demographic includes developers as well). Specifically, the<br>
user who doesn't understand why MacPorts is taking so long to install<br>
so many things when all they want is one tool. They're probably<br>
already running as an administrator and are the only user on the<br>
system, so who cares if /usr/local is set world writeable? From a<br>
certain point of view, that seems valid, but it does ignore the<br>
reasons that led to MacPorts' "complexity" and the steps that MacPorts<br>
has taken to mitigate some of those concerns (ie. pre-built packages).<br>
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