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…if you want, but Alpine isn't going to let you footgun yourself so easily. Homebrew does the same: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3476ca7b8ff889ef61e657... Exclusions for compatibility and security reasons are not the same as…

comment by minxomat · 2021-08-26 · in There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”

…the project. They just answered with bullcrap, instead of directly addressing the matter. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745

comment by dantondwa · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

…for their existing flags for turning off analytics. That doesn't look like an overreach to me? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745/commits/f255f63d4...

comment by jefftk · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

…text "this is a proposal, and if accepted I will update the tests and documentation as well". [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/search?q=HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYT...

comment by arp242 · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

Also: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745#issuecomment-5545...

comment by Hackbraten · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

This comment from a Homebrew maintainer should answer your question: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745#issuecomment-5543...

comment by noname120 · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

…– from 5.28 to 5.30 – in Big Sur 11.3. I wasn't the only one briefly surprised and bitten by it: • https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10127#issuecomment-8... • https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/11275

comment by darrenf · 2021-06-17 · in PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

…alternative to Homebrew, even though Nix will still always be my first-line choice on macOS. — 1: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/0fa417706a2143dbec1e... 2: https://docs.brew.sh/Gems,-Eggs-and-Perl-Modules

comment by pxc · 2021-05-26 · in Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can

…The software doesn't provide official binaries [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-05-16 · in Homebrew purges FUSE packages

…or any other proprietary software. > This includes automatic installation of casks at runtime. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-05-15 · in Lima: Linux-on-Mac

It does warn about it before sending anything though https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3e0f14083aa983c136a375...

comment by meroje · 2021-04-24 · in Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository

Sounds a lot like this here https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383

comment by cordite · 2021-03-16 · in Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub

…although you can probably get it working with Rosetta. See this thread for a list of most tools: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10152 gccemacs isn't available natively yet and probably won't be until later this year, but Emacs…

comment by mkskm · 2021-02-16 · in The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook

…countless time fixing random broken packages due to the unpredictability of `brew install`. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/1670

comment by NicolaiS · 2021-02-06 · in Homebrew 3.0

…unique identifier and your client IP (city-level geolocation) to Google every time you run it. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/142

comment by sneak · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…from that PR exactly which commands no longer work. Thanks for all the great work on homebrew! 0: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/10397

comment by romellem · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…package managers (this praise includes all the efforts not just that of Homebrew). Donate here: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations Note: I am not affiliated with the project in anyway other than being a backer and a user.

comment by gigatexal · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

That has changed recently: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10386

comment by secondraft · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…as well. # Required installation paths. To install elsewhere (which is unsupported) # you can untar https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master # anywhere you like. ... # On Intel macOS, this script installs to /usr/local only…

comment by banana_giraffe · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…to donate to him (naturally), but those will have no impact on Homebrew. To donate to Homebrew, see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations

comment by latexr · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

Why is it bad that homebrew puts files in /usr/local? Edit: They use /opt if you're on Apple Silicon https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Installati...

comment by ihuman · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…vision and maintaining it for the first 4 years! Thanks to Mike McQuaid (et al) for the last 10! https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/graphs/contributors

comment by ikawe · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…Intel macs and /opt/homebrew on ARM macs. Anyway, this requirement is well documented and not new: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues?q=is%3Aissue+%2Fusr%... http://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Installatio... Homebrew…

comment by loeg · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…already know that all. It's just pity to see where is it going[0][1]… -- [0] Regarding spyware: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre... [1] Regarding the forceful approach to unshallowing, they just chose the…

comment by remix2000 · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…no longer operates like `apt` and other package managers. Looks like it was changed in 2016: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/288

comment by secondraft · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

It was already merged, so I'll just go ahead and link it here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/10513 Thanks again for bringing it to our attention!

comment by woodruffw · 2021-02-04 · in Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development

Have you explored the `$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` env var? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/2.7.7/docs/Manpage.md#... I can't tell if that would influence the behavior you're experiencing, but it sounds like it makes the brew command…

comment by mdaniel · 2021-02-03 · in Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development

…work around this For others similarly curious, it appears setting [`$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1`]( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/2.7.7/docs/Manpage.md#... ) is the magic sauce (or the perhaps more accurate link:…

comment by mdaniel · 2021-02-03 · in Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development

…(!): https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2193 - and of course the Homebrew compatibility table: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by hedgehog · 2020-12-24 · in Big Sur 11.1 External Display Issues

…(some of them: circleci, consul, docker, docker-machine, helm, kubernetes-cli, packer, terraform) https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by wumms · 2020-12-18 · in Go 1.16 Beta 1

Brew status: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 Docker status: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/142 From a quick glance neither have committed release dates, but "soon."

comment by BryantD · 2020-12-14 · in Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383 https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/225 https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/226

comment by Nicksil · 2020-12-12 · in Homebrew revises update process at GitHub's request

…Apple has done behind the scenes get M1 support in many open source packages, [1] for example. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 [1] https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/mono/commit/3f2278e081484e6616ee5892895f999610453ca9…

comment by tim-- · 2020-12-04 · in M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness

…that "There won’t be any support for native ARM Homebrew installations for months to come." ( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 ) so if you rely on a large variety of open source and closed source tools that might be a problem.

comment by PeterisP · 2020-11-30 · in Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?

…users That seems pretty aggressive but I imagine they do get loads of feature requests. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/new/choose

comment by cdubzzz · 2020-11-30 · in macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon

I thought a lot of stuff didn't work with Homebrew? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 How do you run the command line tools through Rosetta once they are installed?

comment by aledalgrande · 2020-11-28 · in Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

Brew is claiming otherwise. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 I've had more success using MacPorts ( https://macports.org ). About 80% of what I've tried has worked. Most things that don't work, you can download source and build…

comment by thoughtsimple · 2020-11-25 · in Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

…from original upstream sources would run into similar problems. They have an overview issue here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by grey-area · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1

It's comments like this one that cause these feelings : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...

comment by renaudg · 2020-11-20 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…you can track their progress. The "Major blockers" section lists go, rust, gcc, and others. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by sohooo · 2020-11-19 · in M1 Macs Review

…puts user experience on par with maintainers’s well-being. Examples off the top of my head: [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-7299... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-72... [3]:…

comment by Hackbraten · 2020-11-19 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…occurred to me that I've never donated despite using it so much but now I have. Link for others: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations

comment by frakkingcylons · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…all I got was python3 and git. But no python3.8, no ffmpeg, no erlang, no gnutls, and on and on. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by teilo · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

It doesn’t look like it’s fully baked yet. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by macintux · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

…about being blocked. There are many comments which come across to me as passive-aggressive such as https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5675#issuecomment-46... or the last para at https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5654#issuecomment…

comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2020-11-14 · in Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

…listed as ‘check again when XYZ is fixed’ may themselves have issues that can’t yet be discovered. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by floatingatoll · 2020-11-13 · in Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon

For native packages, see our tracking issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by Hackbraten · 2020-11-12 · in Will the new MBP work natively with Docker, Ubuntu, Node, ect?

…like Adobe CC etc, and also it will take a while for some dev environments to be fully supported ( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 for example shows it will take some time to get to feature parity). Overall though a lot of the…

comment by armincerf · 2020-11-12 · in Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

…already with all the buzz surroubding ARM nowadays. For reference the github issue tracking page: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

comment by hrktb · 2020-11-11 · in Apple's Shifting Differentiation

…to set limits to keep their sanity. It's just a bummer that I'm considering migrating again... [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4334#issuecomment-4029... EDIT: remove unnecessary bits; add forgotten link

comment by ilikepi · 2020-08-13 · in Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks