Tidied things up a little in light of recent changes

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Max Howell 2009-06-18 11:13:11 +01:00
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@ -71,10 +71,13 @@ Search for a package already installed:
ls /usr/local/Cellar/*wget*
List all packages available to install:
ls /Brewery/Library/Formula
ls /usr/local/Library/Formula
Compute installed size of package:
du -h /Brewery/Cellar/wget
du -h /usr/local/Cellar/wget
Show expensive packages:
du -md1 /usr/local/Cellar
You get the idea.
@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ that's easy:
Why Not MacPorts?
=================
1. MacPorts installs its own libz, its own openssl, etc. It's an autarky.
This makes no sense to me. OS X comes with all that shit.
This makes no sense to me. OS X comes with all that stuff.
2. MacPorts support Tiger, and PPC. We don't, so things are better optimised.
3. cmake has like 100 dependencies in MacPorts, with Homebrew it has one
@ -127,7 +130,7 @@ Chances are that if the package hasn't been updated for a few days, then the
previous maintainer has vanished. You have to do it. Don't worry, unlike every
other packaging system ever, it's easy with Homebrew:
1. Edit the relevant ruby file in /Brewery/Formula
1. Edit the relevant ruby file in /usr/local/Formula
2. Fork Homebrew on github (or git diff > patch)
3. Send mxcl a pull request