Homebrew/legacy-homebrew on Hacker News

Found it because I was curious: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/commit/29d85578e... Here are the comparisons to other package managers: > Packages are brewed in individual, versioned kegs. Then symlinks are created to give a…

comment by Lammy · 2025-04-22 · in Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS

…/opt/local /Library/Tcl/macports* If the day ever comes, good luck uninstalling Homebrew.[1][2] [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/48792 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32895800/cant-reinstall-...

comment by Maursault · 2022-11-19 · in Quake 1 port for Apple Watch

…terrible because I didn't know what I was doing. I'm happy to see that it's grown so much! [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/24107

comment by ChristianBundy · 2020-04-13 · in Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems

…The comment about motivation came from a bug report about parallel being "chatty": https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/29060 Nothing homebrew can do about it, of course, but this illustrates one of the implications of…

comment by dahart · 2017-09-24 · in Parallel processing with Unix tools

…page was helpful to me a couple years ago while crafting the tiny PDF used for testing in Homebrew. https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/36606

comment by Noctem · 2017-07-09 · in Minimal PDF

…that are satisfied by 1+ packages will become hardcoded to just one of those dependencies. https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/41595#issue... Note that the maintainers response was: fuck it, the users can just re-complile this…

comment by stephenr · 2017-05-10 · in Git 2.13

It's an acknowledged problem with binary distributed packages: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/41595#issue... Homebrew is more like home made bread that's taken out half way, because it's half-baked and basically terrible.…

comment by stephenr · 2016-08-10 · in Can't upgrade percona-toolkit when percona-server installed

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story by stephenr · 2016-08-10 · 5 comments

…management solution is terrible, unless you want to compile everything yourself. For example: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/35995

comment by stephenr · 2016-04-18 · in Remote code execution, git, and OS X

…but an hour after your post, someone (burma-shave) had updated the LFE formula for v1.0 of LFE: * https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/f95c192d43d9a56bda...

comment by oubiwann · 2016-03-17 · in Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

…I'd like to consider Homebrew running `brew update` automatically before you `brew install` ( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/38818 ). For us to ever be able to do that `brew update`'s no-op case needs to be extremely fast.

comment by mikemcquaid · 2016-03-08 · in CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

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Homebrew merges MLton Formula

story by z1mm32m4n · 2016-03-06 · 0 comments

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story by nimitkalra · 2016-02-29 · 0 comments

…full-fledged SML compiler with top-notch performance installable with just brew install mlton [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/48694

comment by z1mm32m4n · 2016-02-20 · in Unicode in SML

…fonts from the terminal. And, fwiw, the project is about to be on Homebrew, with no tap required: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49040 Though getting it up was not quite as pain-free than our initial publishes to NPM. The thing…

comment by paulirish · 2016-02-15 · in How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

…[0]. In the mean time, you can tap it: % brew tap OJFord/formulae % brew install diff-so-fancy [0]( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49040 )

comment by OJFord · 2016-02-15 · in How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

Looks like two^Wthree people have already raised PRs for getting version 2 in Homebrew[0] [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...

comment by marcosscriven · 2016-02-11 · in Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

Hopefully soon: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/48460

comment by leipert · 2016-01-25 · in Simplifying Docker on OS X

Homebrew receipt has been updated to 1.5 just a few hours later! https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/dee292132fb73820...

comment by devy · 2015-12-11 · in Rust 1.5

Homebrew's Rust receipt is still at 1.4 :( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

comment by devy · 2015-12-10 · in Rust 1.5

…of anything to do with Homebrew itself. 1. https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/ 2. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew

comment by integraton · 2015-12-01 · in Leaving the Mac App Store

Homebrew does not advocate installing things as root. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

comment by superchink · 2015-10-01 · in El Capitan and Homebrew

It is possible to switch /usr/local according to [1], they state it's not recommended though. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

comment by omribahumi · 2015-10-01 · in El Capitan and Homebrew

That's how Homebrew works. Other could use it but not install or upgrade. From Homebrew docs: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

comment by garretraziel · 2015-10-01 · in El Capitan and Homebrew

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h... "Apple documentation hints that /usr/local will be returned to root:wheel restricted permissions on every OS X update; Homebrew will be adding a brew doctor check to warn you…

comment by rbinv · 2015-10-01 · in El Capitan and Homebrew

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story by juanfatas · 2015-10-01 · 288 comments

…back after. It's worth mentioning that after the upgrade you might run into permissions problems: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h... You might want to run `brew update` before updating, so `brew doctor` can…

comment by Rafert · 2015-09-30 · in OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store

Also, as soon as this PR is merged, there will be a Homebrew recipe available on OSX: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/40878

comment by toddpersen · 2015-06-19 · in Announcing Telegraf, a metrics collector for InfluxDB

Aren't they on github? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew

comment by Tehnix · 2015-06-04 · in Tmux has left SourceForge

Certain things are still being tested/rebuilt to work with the latest GCC. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/36926

comment by D4AHNGM · 2015-05-01 · in Compiling GCC 5 on OS X

…standard script installs Homebrew to /usr/local so that you don’t need sudo when you brew install" https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h... "Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their…

comment by tlrobinson · 2015-04-09 · in Linuxbrew – A fork of Homebrew for Linux

…with Homebrew" Most (all?) "formulas" include cryptographic hash checks for any downloaded files: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

comment by tlrobinson · 2015-04-09 · in Linuxbrew – A fork of Homebrew for Linux

…for the MySQL installation. Can you point out the part of this that's giving you security concerns? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

comment by diminoten · 2015-04-09 · in Linuxbrew – A fork of Homebrew for Linux

Sub in the version and sha256 and you should be good to go: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/38346/files

comment by callahad · 2015-04-03 · in Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/38346 should interest you

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-04-03 · in Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta

…$ brew info cassandra cassandra: stable 2.1.2 http://cassandra.apache.org Not installed From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/cassandra.rb ==> Caveats If you plan to use the CQL shell (cqlsh), you will need…

comment by oesmith · 2015-02-10 · in Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie