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by jhanschoo 3782 days ago
> Cask

In my experience, cask is too fragile for its original use of installing binaries. Issues include

* applications expecting to be installed to /Applications

* applications with weird installation requirements/dependencies

* self-updater conflicting with cask's installation settings

* problems with detecting an installation (and uninstalling it) because the updated version's recipe installs differently or something.

For these reasons I now prefer to install applications by their official/expected/supported installation method.

On the other hand, I find brew very useful.