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by chongli 647 days ago
Yes, so we should move to a source-based package manager and build system, like FreeBSD ports.
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adastra22 647 days ago
There are plenty of options for that on macOS, the most common being homebrew and MacPorts.
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Hamuko 647 days ago
Homebrew defaults to downloading binaries.
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adastra22 647 days ago
Defaults to. You can tell it to compile yourself, if that matters to you. I don’t see what the issue is here. Why is it a problem that it defaults to binary distribution?
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Hamuko 647 days ago
The biggest problem is that the defaulting to binary distribution also means that building from source is unsupported.

>Building from source takes a long time, is prone to failure, and is not supported.

Having issues building your Homebrew packages from source? Well, you better not take it to the bug tracker.

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fredoliveira 646 days ago
> The biggest problem is that the defaulting to binary distribution also means that building from source is unsupported.

I don't think it means that at all. They're both clearly supported by homebrew — one just happens to be the default. You can always use -s or --build-from-source to build whatever package you are installing.

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Hamuko 646 days ago
I mean, it is quite clearly said in the documentation that building from source is not supported.
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