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What is homebrew and why do I need it on my Bazzite installs? (bookwyr.me)

submitted 1 day ago by dentacle@bookwyr.me to c/bazzite@lemmy.world

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I tried to understand what homebrew is and why I need it on my machines. It looks like clutter? Can someone give an example of a good use case, please. Or is this just something the Bazzite devs want? The documentation is not very helpful and it doesn't look like anyone is using it.

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[–] pogodem0n@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Homebrew is a very popular package manager for Mac OS, but it is available on Linux, too. It installs packages without root and completely isolated (meaning no conflicts, not sandboxing) from the rest of the system.

I use it on Fedora and in the past used it on Ubuntu derivatives to install packages not available in distro repositories (such as starship).

It can also be used in old LTS distros to have newer versions of packages (for example, I used it to download latest version of neovim on Pop!_OS).

You can also use it to avoid layering small packages to the base image (which extends update times) on Bazzite and similar distros.

[–] dentacle@bookwyr.me 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And this is...safe? I know we do things now different on immutable distros, but I'm used to the old repo-thing where I had at least a little bit of control over the supply chain. Now it's just "hey we download something from somewhere, it's cool ,trust us"?

[–] pogodem0n@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Homebrew itself and the packages it downloads are all on GitHub. So, I guess it is safe. Still, it is probably best to stick with trusted packages and not download random stuff from there.