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by ufmace 3711 days ago
Looks like a PR was created ~4min ago.

Sidenote - was just messing with Homebrew a few days ago, and found it a little bizarre that all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update, rather than being on a server somewhere.

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I think that's a different issue.
That issue says that Homebrew is doing just fine. Not painful.
Seems reminiscent of the BSD ports approach, which is one of the major reasons a switch to FreeBSD (from Linux) is still on my personal roadmap.
I think you meant:

> all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update AND so they are on a server somewhere.