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by shoo_pl 2107 days ago
Why would you say that?

On macOS, I can easily upgrade my nginx homebrew package, (same with httpd) each of them have like 2 dependencies and I don't think I ever had a conflict when doing so. Granted, not easy on windows, but see my comment about terminal ;-)
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fomine3 2105 days ago
You're happy because you always want to use latest version of software and that's Homebrew works to be intended. Your latest httpd also depends on other packages but not a problem because you upgrade all packages and os.

If you want to use latest packages at all, you can use distro like Arch Linux, Gentoo, or etc.

Normal distros like Ubuntu and RHEL don't upgrade packages because of stability. If you use these distros but need latest software, you can use LinuxBrew (it seems that it's merged to Homebrew) to install latest software, or use Docker.

Anyway it's not pros for Mac but pros for Homebrew and it's also available on Linux. OTOH stable and secure macOS environment with many packages like Ubuntu, RHEL is difficult.

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