Is Homebrew safe to use?

[TwoFistedJustice]

Is Homebrew a reasonably safe way to get software?

What can go wrong?

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

How does it differ from apt-get or Muon?

[claydoh]

Don't see the point of it on Linux, really. I know it supports Linux, but still, it is primarily for Mac OS. You don't need special doohickeys to compile and install software the 'hard' way in Linux.

On Linux, 'packages' are pre-compiled sets of binaries, libraries, or other files. A tool is used to manage dependencies and the like when installing removing and updating. In Debian based systems, apt is the tool used for this. Other types of systems use different tools, with some that don't have this functionality at all, or by design imstll everything from source code (Gentoo, LFS).

Homebrew downloads, compiles, and installs software from source code. Most if not all of the stuff I see available are small, fairly simple command line tools, and quite a lot of it is readily available in most if not all Linux distros.

It should be safe. Just not needed for probably 99.99% of people. And for the .01, it probably is easier to grab and manually install a thing directly from the developer.


https://www.lifewire.com/guide-to-li...ckages-2202801
https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-re...ge-management/