Homebrew fails to install on Intel Macs. Says unsupported.
Personally I was burnt by Homebrew many years ago already. I lost trust in any such package managers. Since then I went back to just compile everything myself (I manage about 300 packages like that in my installation.) It's not that a big of problem. Only initially when you need to bootstrap everything to replace Homebrew it was quite the time investment, of course. But now you compile like a package here or there… just follow the script. It's very quickly done.
The best thing… no clutter. Every package has its strict directory. I only symlink from that what I need into /usr/local/bin.
Like, how did people so ignorant come to manage such a project? I excuse most of the users but not the authors who have the balls to call themselves "engineers" on top.
I wouldn't be suprised if they weren't the very reason shortly after that Apple took over ownership and brute force OS control over those dirs.
Isn't that exactly the benefit of homebrew? It installs in one folder and symlinks. And my guess, it would've been much easier to remove extra symlinks you don't need from its package manifest rather than rewrite the whole system
Homebrew additionally also had bunch of other directories, a huge git checkout, etc. then add the weird permission restrictions/ limitations on top of it… many packages then stopped supporting the customisation options at some point, so you were forced to rebuild half of them yourself anyway, if you needed the respective options. Now you had even more mess in /usr/local. :-)
It may work for some, but it wasn't for me anymore (and I used Homebrew for many years before that.)
Thanks to LLMs I just vibe my own package management system based on debian packages and have my own registry now with stuff that I care about
From https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/release-notes#x86_...
> [...] We also recommend users consider installing NixOS, which should continue to run on essentially all Intel Macs. [...]