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🍻 Default and OSS formulae (built-from-source packages) for the package manager for everywhere

141 mentions on Hacker News by 117 people: 25 stories, 116 comments · first 2016-04-26 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. …d.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/manpages/unbound... [2] https://github.com/nodesource/distributions [3] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c2579d98415bd...
    comment by mhio · 2022-01-17 · in Some ways DNS can break
  2. …updating everything. The homebrew formula contains no reference to xcode version, for example: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
  3. …those two projects are mature enough that they've hammered out the problematic cases by now. — https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
  4. …the kind of logic you'd want for printing dependency trees with Homebrew as it exists.[2] — 1: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... 2: https://github.com/martido/homebrew-graph/blob/master/cmd/br...
  5. …tap. But now that 1.0.0 has been released, it has just (3 hours ago!) been added to homebrew-core: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/84805
  6. …going to verify that or verify it using keys downloaded from the same https host. [1] Homebrew - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... [2] Arch - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rust/ [3] Ubuntu -…
  7. …be installed via Homebrew. However, there is an open pull request for it from just a few hours ago https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/84049 So here's to hoping it'll be available there soon :D
  8. …work as well as it does, so I can't really blame them for potentially taking a shortcut here. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...
  9. What does this version have over https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... ?
    comment by saagarjha · 2021-06-17 · in PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
  10. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74812#issueco...
    comment by ggm · 2021-05-16 · in Homebrew purges FUSE packages
  11. …ext4fuse, and encfs. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021211533/https://formulae.... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/64491
    comment by soraminazuki · 2021-05-16 · in Homebrew purges FUSE packages
  12. …get block/warnings from Gatekeeper if un-notarized, which is the part you have to pay for. This https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/47129 suggests there is yet another factor to consider - the "quarantine" flag. Presumably…
    comment by anentropic · 2021-05-02 · in The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing
  13. Its not merged into homebrew yet: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74849
    comment by jonnybarnes · 2021-04-09 · in FFmpeg 4.4
  14. …you said, the formula came back a week and a half later when they returned to tagging releases. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/82a45025682...
    comment by ihuman · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0
  15. …their repo[1] for a “formula” whenever I need something macports or pkgsrc can’t supply me. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by brigandish · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0
  16. …Why not just use that and not have to deal with any third party Python installation managers? [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/68193
  17. …trying to download https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/2020-08-27/rust-std-1.46.0... It looks like https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/65286 may fix things. Haven't spent a ton of time investigating though. Obviously if you have…
    comment by JulianWasTaken · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  18. I was curious and found the package install scripts nicely organized by name here-- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
    comment by CapriciousCptl · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  19. …the applications now needing to be compiled in the ARM architecture. here are some examples: aom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/57976 boost: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/59257 ... if you notice the code…
  20. …you've been using the system Python all along, not the Homebrew one. Install-time warning message: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/087008a4c8cfb... Documentation referenced in the message:…
  21. …after running NixOS for two days. This is the same software that I also contributed to Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/1268459f761... Again, a simple declarative-ish package description (written in Ruby, which is…
  22. …only provides a limited feature set[2][3]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925 [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510 [3]: https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs/search?q=support+is%...
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
  23. …be adding it in the coming months It's been part of homebrew/core for something like two weeks: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by Spiritus · 2020-02-12 · in GitHub CLI is now in beta
  24. Same. What has changed to make it "support" Catalina? Edit: Found it. I didn't see I could click it. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/44988
    comment by pvinis · 2019-11-27 · in Homebrew 2.2
  25. For us Macheads it looks like there's a brew formula in the works: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43459 I do a fair bit of viz work, this tool could come in handy for generating color schemes I think.
  26. That seems to be a legacy thing: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by saagarjha · 2019-05-25 · in More Productive Git
  27. It does, at least Zork runs, see http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/all-of-infocoms-game-source... and https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/38990
  28. …/usr/local/Cellar/grep/3.3 (21 files, 885.3KB) * Poured from bottle on 2019-01-03 at 12:23:37 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/grep.rb ... This is a very arbitrary example, but I've got 1.5Gb application…
    comment by Twirrim · 2019-03-29 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
  29. This started be a problem when I could not compile curl anymore with --with-http2 option. See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/7f9bfa67922...
  30. …to break any existing compiled binaries. Frustrating that my PR to create readline@7 was rejected. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/36782 I would at least like to see some mechanism to exclude a Formula from automatic gc of…
    comment by ab · 2019-02-08 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released
  31. …overall interest. It left me not feeling very good about the direction the project is taking. [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510
    comment by ComputerGuru · 2019-02-03 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released
  32. Yeh, we did: - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/35169 - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5390
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0
  33. …about it in "postgres" formula[2]. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgupgrade.html [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by ungzd · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0
  34. …: > This would have avoided Homebrew/homebrew-core#34754 which links to: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/34754 tl;dr One user had binutils force-linked, causing cmake to pick up the user-installed flavor of binutil
    comment by Hackbraten · 2019-01-09 · in Homebrew 1.9.0
  35. …always something that requires updating or has many requests. It's a good way to get started. [0] - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
  36. The PR is open here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/29490 Looks like it's waiting for tests to pass at present.
    comment by beaugunderson · 2018-06-28 · in Python 3.7 released
  37. …found for "clozure". Open pull requests: clozure-cl 1.11.5 (restoration of a deleted formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/25768) Looks like the Homebrew formula for CCL was removed.
    comment by susam · 2018-05-10 · in Common Lisp homepage
  38. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... Homebrew pulls it directly from the Python.org, but it's also slightly opinionated in what else it installs. I would suggest just reading through the formula to see what it…
    comment by evilduck · 2018-04-30 · in Python Environment
  39. …Homebrew-as-package-manager ( https://github.com/Homebrew/brew ) from Homebrew-as-repository ( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core ). As a technology or stack of technologies for building, installing, upgrading, and configuring…
    comment by pxc · 2018-04-28 · in Installing Fonts Using Homebrew
  40. …-> ../Cellar/python/3.6.5/bin/python3 [1] https://brew.sh/2018/04/09/homebrew-1.6.0/ [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/24812 [3] https://discourse.brew.sh/t/python-and-pep-394/1813 [4]…
  41. Better link with discussion of PR would be — https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/24604
  42. …history. Just to make sure I wasn't nuts I had to check my notes and found the original commit: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/77aa909188b... . Apparently there's been some history rewriting that I don't quite understand.
    comment by dancek · 2018-02-13 · in Who is the longest-serving programmer?
  43. Agreed. Link to source for the curious/lazy: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/cmd/br...
    comment by rattray · 2018-01-19 · in Homebrew 1.5.0
  44. Thanks but .. $ brew search alacritty .... Closed pull requests: alacritty HEAD (new formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/8727)
    comment by emmelaich · 2017-12-25 · in Computer latency: 1977-2017
  45. …of changing it. Updating homebrew, new formulas, etc, is nothing more than a `git pull`. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
    comment by jameskilton · 2017-12-11 · in Homebrew 1.4.0
  46. Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash
    comment by saagarjha · 2017-10-05 · in Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released
  47. …it's in progress. IIRC brew pulls from Git(hub) directly, so, I guess as soon as this is merged: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/19000
    comment by colemickens · 2017-10-04 · in Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released
  48. Have a look and see if any of the packages you use regularly are on their 10.13 issues list: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/18493
    comment by robin_reala · 2017-09-25 · in MacOS High Sierra
  49. …wrong place. Install the homebrew version, it has 3 patches for macOS that aren't in the upstream. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by trapperkeeper74 · 2017-09-24 · in APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective
  50. …search g https://github.com/%s "g upspin/upspin" to jump to https://github.com/upspin/upspin.git br https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... read homebrew formula c https://caniuse.com/#search=%s
    comment by shpx · 2017-09-21 · in DuckDuckGo vs Google