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by lyptt 1794 days ago
I was a long time homebrew user, but I found as time went on it got increasingly frustrating to use. The one thing that kept biting me was it wanting to update itself and all installed packages each time you install a new package. Having to wait 20 minutes for LLVM to recompile itself just so you can install wget is not fun.

I use MacPorts now, since it gets out of your way. It's up to you when you choose to update its index or your packages, which is much more user friendly in my opinion.
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YetAnotherNick 1794 days ago
> wanting to update itself and all installed packages each time you install a new package

Whatt?? It updates itself(which you can stop by ^c and the installation proceeds without updating) which takes around a minute for me but definitely not all the packages only the dependencies.

Not sure if the parent or me has something wrong in the configuration that our experience is so different.

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lyptt 1794 days ago
It's always been the case for me that it'll update everything I have installed, and won't let me proceed with installing a package until that finishes. No idea why, but it's obnoxious enough to make me never want to use it again.
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