On: Homebrew 1.2.0

[unit91]

I've never worried about it. I just

brew install thing-i-want

[thatswrong0 → unit91]

Sure, but the moment you have to do anything slightly non-standard you get stuck in jargon land

[coldtea → thatswrong0]

For like 2 minutes... And then you don't have to think about it for the rest of your life...

[rbanffy → coldtea]

Until the next time, when you need to either remember what you did once a couple months back or relearn it again.

The metaphors could be a little bit clearer.

[pmiller2 → rbanffy]

If only there were a site on the internet where you could search for these things....

[_acme → pmiller2]

There is, but that's a waste of my time, when we could all just use normal words.

[ryandrake → _acme]

Yea, like grep and awk!

Naming things has always been hard.

[rbanffy → ryandrake]

Grep and awk were a new thing decades ago. I expected we knew better now, but, it seems, we are doomed to ignore the past and go reinventing (and then having to fix) our own square wheels.

[funzofactofive → _acme]

Yeah...if only I didn't have to press one for "English"

[rbanffy → pmiller2]

That kind of defeats the purpose of a software manager, doesn't it?

[pbreit → thatswrong0]

Like what?

[to3m → unit91]

I still use MacPorts, so I don't worry about it either.

[jonhohle → to3m]

As do I. MacPorts has fit my mental model in a way that Homebrew never did.