<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2014-02-12, at 3:50 PM, Art McGee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On a related note, Homebrew is actually based on GNU Stow. It's basically a clone/ripoff with enhancements. If you're going to use Homebrew, then use it in the same way suggested for Stow, and install packages in your home directory, leaving /usr/local alone.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Where in the world did you get this idea? Firstly, all that Stow does is make symlinks from a place where the software is actually installed to another (like /usr/local) where it's convenient to access and run. Homebrew is much more like Macports in that it can download the most recent version of a software package, compile it, test it, install it in a unique destination and *then* symlink it to /usr/local. Not to mention that Homebrew is Ruby and Stow is Perl-based. </div><div><br></div><div>If you had said that homebrew is a ripoff of Macports, or rather, a reinvention, then you'd be closer to the mark.</div><div><br></div><div>Davor</div></body></html>