Ask HN: Is there a [blazing fast] alternative to homebrew for macOS yet? Is anyone out there working on it? |
Ask HN: Is there a [blazing fast] alternative to homebrew for macOS yet? Is anyone out there working on it? |
Pkgsrc is more conventional, and its package set is smaller. But the binary distribution of it from Joyent is is consistently quite fast, and the package quality in Pkgsrc is high. It's a fast, well-behaved package manager, and probably the closest thing to what you're looking for unless your main concern is macOS GUI applications.
- In practice, requires being installed to /usr/local
- Hard to uninstall in practice, leaves files scattered behind
Brew is just fine as it is, unless you’re running an older version of macOS and it has to build packages from source.
export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1
(used to be that you could just `brew install https://link/to/git/commit` which they disabled for "security reasons", the replacement is that you need to make your own tap which is quite a bit more effort)