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-mlvlast Sunday at 10:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I had some issues with brew breaking up my system and pkg-config.


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colesantiagolast Sunday at 10:46 PM

It is a bit hard to know what the issue is here.

But on average brew is much more safer than downloading a binary from the ether where we don't know what it does.

I see more tools use the curl | bash install pattern as well, which is completely insecure and very vulnerable to machines.

Looks like the best way to install these tools is to build it yourself, i.e. make install, etc.

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