devzer0

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   by devzer0 8y ago

   Binaries are built on CI infra with logs that are publicly available and with all the source code doing the builds publicly available. Effectively the same process as local, from source builds. The bottle DSL ensures that the SHA binaries a
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   by devzer0 8y ago

   Yes, I like Homebrew's GNU stow - like capabilities of linking stuff in and out of your environment. A word of warning, however: Homebrew 2.0 removes your old formula from the Cellar when upgrading. If you want to disable this you must
3. 3.▲
   by devzer0 8y ago

   You can put it under your home folder too. That's the primary use case, I believe: cases where the system is old & crufty and you don't have root.
4. 4.▲
   by devzer0 8y ago

   > I'd trust it more than homebrew anyway. I'm curious why you feel this way.
5. 5.▲
   by devzer0 8y ago

   Yes, many maintainers/linuxbrew folk are/were in science/academia. They were tired of logging into HPC system X and needing a certain piece of software. With linuxbrew/homebrew on linux you can just install/build th