It’s only happened twice in more than a decade, but I still have the feeling that I was better off compiling stuff manually and cultivating a tidy /usr/local/bin like I did in early 2000s. But it’s probably rose-colored glasses and I’d definitively never take the time these days.
This has settled down a bit but the big HTTPS-everywhere push last decade flushed out a ton of things which had been quietly aging in place, unnoticed until someone started depending on SNI, newer crypto suites, actually disabling deprecated versions of SSL/TLS, etc.
thats exactly what homebrew does.
The Homebrew formulas' are what's used to produce those binaries, or - if there's no pre-compiled one available - that's when it's compiled live on your system.
Seems like a decent tradeoff, as otherwise installing (say) Qt could take an hour+, since that's a bit of a monster to compile. :)
When I do a yum install, 99% of the cases it just add the package I need. And won't mess with my dev tools.