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by Hackbraten 181 days ago
> and homebrew is in the same category as npm.

Homebrew runs against a curated and tested package repository maintained by a dedicated team of vetted maintainers.

NPM is free-for-all with zero curation. Anyone can upload whatever they want.
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realusername 180 days ago
If has maintainers, well it's clear by now from all the security problems which happened in homebrew first that it's nowhere as diligent as apt or rpm.

Also next problem with it, I really don't want to build everything from source, otherwise I would use Gentoo and not MacOS...

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Hackbraten 180 days ago
> it's clear by now from all the security problems which happened in homebrew

What kind of security problems do you mean?

> I really don't want to build everything from source

Why do you think that Homebrew forces you to build anything from source?

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