![]() It's not always compatible with other package managers for macOS, so care has to be taken if multiple alternatives are supposed to be usable. Homebrew is also basically incapable of reliable uninstallation of packages common advice is to use separate prefixes or wipe your whole installation with a series of commands that force you to reckon with the internal structure of Homebrew. Font rendering in macOS and iOS has been the source of numerous crashing and freezing issues of such a similar kind to one another that it is somewhat surprising and interesting that the entire class of such bugs wasn't fixed after the first major incident (as has been discussed on Hacker News recently). macOS ignores emoji embedded in fonts that the user has chosen, and instead always injects the Apple emoji. Certain fonts are considered ‘required’ parts of the system, so that to modify or remove them on a Mac you have to disable System Integrity Protection, and a whole host of apps will simply crash on startup if, e.g., the Apple Color Emoji font is missing. macOS lacks configurable font substitutions, so extended characters like those provided in the ‘nerd fonts’ can only appear in applications which can be explicitly configured to use those fonts. More on the topic of fonts in particular, there are tons of reasons that Apple's font handling, especially but not only in terms of installation and configuration management, is an embarrassment. Huge parts of it are basically scripted installation of preexisting binary packages, putting it more on par with Chocolatey or yaourt than a tool like apt backed by proper repos with source packages. It only half-installs some packages, leaving you to manually link things in to certain directories (it was like this with Varnish a few months ago, and maybe still is). As a mostly exclusive user of GNU+Linux for the past 9 years who started using a Mac last year because it was issued to me by my employer:īecause Homebrew lacks many of the strengths of the kinds of package managers you find in the Linux ecosystem.
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