Comment by mcsniff

1 month ago

It's a package manager.

The second header on the main page:

What Does Homebrew Do?

Homebrew installs the command-line tools and applications you need across macOS, Linux and WSL.

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assimpleaspossi  1 month ago

That doesn't make sense. Why do I need Homebrew to install the command line tools of macOS on macOS? Doesn't macOS already have them installed? Same for Linux, etc.

  • atombender  1 month ago

    Replace "need" with "want" and it might make more sense?

    Homebrew is the Mac equivalent of APT, Pacman, RPM, BSD ports, etc. It's a fairly traditional package manager for software that doesn't come with macOS. "brew install postgresql" installs Postgres into /opt/homebrew, for example.