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by hahainternet 3070 days ago
Is what `end-users should care about` any business of yours? I don't mean that insultingly, I mean genuinely.

I think renaming a bunch of packages with a prefix is probably silly, but your response also strikes me as incredibly prescriptive.

I like brew, but I don't like that attitude.

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Given we're a tool that exists primarily to save time for our end-users I'd like it to be optimised so they don't need to care or think about things like what language a tool is written in to be able to install it.
> Is what `end-users should care about` any business of yours?

I only wish more software held a laser focus on what end users wanted, and thought about their needs as a top priority when evaluating proposals.

Brew is a really awesome piece of software to use, and it's that way because the authors are clearly constantly thinking about their users when they make decisions.

>Is what `end-users should care about` any business of yours?

Of course it’s his business! It’s his product and he gets to decide what he thinks people care about.

That’s like saying, “Why did Steve Jobs think it was his business to support mp3 and not OGG on the iPod?”