Homebrew and package management (Changelog Interviews #223)
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The Dream of a Homebrew Package Manager
The way most package managers work is they have a unified prefix and what homebrew does is we then sim link the contents of those subdirectories back into the user local bin. The benefit for that is it lets you stop software from stomping on each other so you can have software installed side by side which installs conflicting things rather than being like oh okay we actually just can't install these two things in the package manager at the same time. i might actually suggest after this that uh that there should be some sort of like glossary for brew file because you'll have so many terms and I'd forgotten about seller and we actually asked about keg is a joke but it's actually real
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