[ricardobeat]

This. At a previous job I ended up writing quite a bit of tooling around installing and updating developer tools, for 1000+ devs. Some things that would have been a very easy sale:

- private, managed brew repos

- linux support

- onboarding / workstation setup via Brewfile

- maybe a graphical interface for that

- enterprise support plan (would have been handy when `/usr/local/bin` stopped being writable some OSX versions back)

Eventually a lot of it moved to NPM via artifactory for the ease of publishing & consumption.

[SahAssar]

> linux support

What distro are you using that doesn't have a proper package manager? Brew exists precisely because this has been standard for years/decades on linux but OSX hasn't had anything built in.

[ricardobeat]

Of course they all do - the desire for good homebrew support (linuxbrew already exists) comes from the ease of writing formulas and scripting in Ruby, it's infinitely easier than packaging for apt / apk. Plus the fact that 80% of developers use Mac, but you can't leave the 20% out in the rain. This is for in-house software, not third party.