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by quesera 1960 days ago
You're probably right about Homebrew feeling more comfortable for new users.

Opinions on Homebrew may diverge with the answers to "How would you prefer to install? a) curl pipe to shell, or b) Download a DMG, double-click to install, and update your PATH." :)
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Macha 1960 days ago
a) curl pipe to shell

b) Download a DMG, double-click to install

These are not morally that different, the DMG installation can also do pretty much whatever, and I doubt people are picking apart the DMG to find the install script to verify that either.

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quesera 1960 days ago
I'm definitely not resuscitating that old argument here.

Just noting that people have strong opinions about the preferability of either approach.

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