Shame on you, Homebrew, for effectively killing FOSS apps from casks.

  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    Deprecating now will give a decent lead time for users using it to come up with another solution or adjust their workflows.

    The adjusted solution/workflow: use something other than homebrew

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      28 minutes ago

      I mean, theres macports and what else? Is macports even kickin still? No other package managers other than homebrew

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        4 hours ago

        By doing what homebrew currently does when you pass the --no-quarantine flag, which is call xattr.

        Note that I’d probably support removing --no-quarantine if Apple’s notarization service was free.

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          57 minutes ago

          Notarisation, free (as in beer) limits your ability to run your code that (Corporate) doesn’t like, making it inherently non free (as in freedom).

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            16 minutes ago

            Yes, but you can still compile the code yourself. It’s only problematic for binary distribution. This is basically a question of balancing security vs. freedom I suppose.