[Request] brew-git

[os-guy]

Package

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brew-git

Purpose

This is a package manager for MacOS and GNU/Linux.
It has a lot of useful packages.

License

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

Submission checklist

• The package is not banned.
• The package is not available in Chaotic AUR or official Arch repos.
• The package has not already been requested.

[xiota]

How is this useful on Arch? Based on search, some people use this to install up-to-date software on old LTS distros. But Arch doesn't really have that problem.

[os-guy]

Yes, you're right.
But dealing with dependencies can be very hard sometimes.
Think as another option for installing packages/dependencies.
This package can install those dependencies that other package managers can't.

[khazar-os-linux]

Bro it's very important for installing some dependencies.

[xiota]

Some examples? Wouldn't programs outside the brew ecosystem have difficulty finding/using brew-provided deps?

[os-guy]

If you don't want to build it, just tell tho.
It's just an-other option for installing packages.

But if you want to see some examples, theese are the packages that not exist in AUR:
abi3audit
abnfgen
aces_container
actions-batch
ada-url
adamstark-audiofile
And there's more.

They might seem small, but not most of the packages/deopendencies are big.

[Technetium1]

Looking at PR 5926 (the patch source), it seems when homebrew is used to update itself, which is the expected behavior, it will break. That's not very good, and the developers don't seem to officially support the way that it is being installed. I'm not sure this is right for us to add.

[os-guy]

Looking at PR 5926 (the patch source), it seems when homebrew is used to update itself, which is the expected behavior, it will break.

Oh, I didn't know that.
I'm closing this request.
Thanks for the info.

[os-guy]

I just pressed the wrong close button :D

[xiota]

@os-guy Half the packages listed are available on Arch.

• abi3audit → aur/python-abi3audit
• aces_container → aur/aces-container
• ada-url → extra/ada

Consider ada-url / ada. There was a short period where it was needed to build some programs, but hadn't been packaged yet. Would installing with brew have allowed the programs to compile without rewriting the PKGBUILDs? Based on statements from the brew homepage, it likely wouldn't work. It also could interfere with native package managers:

Please note that unlike macOS, Homebrew does not use a sandbox when building on Linux, so formulae may install outside the Homebrew prefix.

Continued discussion of brew functionality on Linux would be of academic interest only. Package already rejected because auto-updating nature does not lend well to system-wide installation.