Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-08-02 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Homebrew only supports the last release or two on MacOS. Today, you > might see support for Version 13: "Ventura" and Version 12: > "Monterey". Anything else and you had to use MacPorts. Or pkgsrc*, which isn't quite as popular but supports (or can be made to support) prett

Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:25 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2023 14:02:22 -0700 > Dan Hitt wrote: > > > In a thread on backups, somebody mentioned backing up homebrew. > > > > So that means homebrew exists for linux, and that some active > > participants here use it. > [...] > Also, Ho

Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 14:02:22 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: > In a thread on backups, somebody mentioned backing up homebrew. > > So that means homebrew exists for linux, and that some active > participants here use it. Homebrew is a term for custom, one-off, or heavily customized. As in the now defunct

homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Dan Hitt
In a thread on backups, somebody mentioned backing up homebrew. So that means homebrew exists for linux, and that some active participants here use it. And indeed, there is homebrew for linux: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux Presumably, the use is for packages that either don't exist on d