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I tried Homebrew once in a VM and didn't like it, I felt it was too invasive.
Why does it create another user and put files under
/home/linuxbrew/
? Answer:Where's the logic in that? Why not just install to the user's home directory so that you don't even need root access in the first place?
Why is
sudo
hard-coded? Answer: it's to prevent people from usingdoas
and othersudo
alternatives.Why is installing from the tarball unsupported and so frowned upon? FFS isn't this just supposed to be a package manager? Why is everything so complicated and opinionated when compared to pip, cargo, Flatpak, etc? Compare this mess to Golang's install and uninstall process where you literally just need to
tar -xzf
a file orrm -rf
a directory.