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vladvasiliutoday at 9:34 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm fine with homebrew not supporting whatever versions they choose.

I think GP's issue is forcing the use of homebrew for what seems like a rather trivial install. Just make the binary easily downloadable. It's not like you can't open the curled script to see what it fetches and do it yourself. It's just that having to jump through this useless hoop is annoying.

My mac is running the latest version of Tahoe but I never liked homebrew. You can bet I won't install it just for one app.


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bbkanetoday at 2:49 PM

Homebrew really helps when you want to install more than one app... And you want to keep them updated... And you want to easily delete some of them at some point.

Managing the install lifecycle with one set of commands for multiple apps is why I love Homebrew