hot take: Homebrew's (package manager) name and metaphors are bad There's a reason we have npm, and cargo, and not $ xanax install fentanyl
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Replying to @whitequark
Related opinion: package managers should be boring, they are the last place I want "clever" stuff. (Also: build systems.)
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Replying to @silentbicycle
heard about the build system that ptraces the compiler to compute dependencies?
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Replying to @whitequark
Yes; a bit too clever, and bonus portability concerns
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Replying to @hirojin @whitequark
There's fac, for example https://github.com/droundy/fac (I haven't used it) pretty sure there's at least one more
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I wrote something like that for ROCK Linux over 15 years ago.. I think many people had this idea over time. It's not that bad imo.
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