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authorMax Howell2009-06-18 11:13:11 +0100
committerMax Howell2009-06-18 11:13:11 +0100
commit1ddc1b764602a5a4b8355b2abd76d297ded9d276 (patch)
tree609225bbb4edfb51ae6fcc9a61358d6852071903
parentf352880274cc66d396a1b88099e4a5e7cf669928 (diff)
downloadbrew-1ddc1b764602a5a4b8355b2abd76d297ded9d276.tar.bz2
Tidied things up a little in light of recent changes
-rw-r--r--README11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 21f965b63..1cdf81b42 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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