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ARussell on April 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Ana...

Maybe try out Nix while you're at it, too! I'm using NixOS, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. The standalone package manager fills the same niche as Homebrew, I think.

Juan1 on April 25, 2016 [–]

I only use Linux, so what do I know, but... is the highly interesting Nix package manager a full alternative to Homebrew ?

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