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| author | Max Howell | 2009-05-21 04:33:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Max Howell | 2009-05-21 04:33:35 +0100 |
| commit | 41a7984bb122b63fd11794160822e7a242133cdf (patch) | |
| tree | 249f353ff740c5a700a9ff6f534e9a7fc9d45f0c | |
| parent | 37dad1269511b717b30c01b0a8367968eab49e03 (diff) | |
| download | brew-41a7984bb122b63fd11794160822e7a242133cdf.tar.bz2 | |
Minor corrections
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 20 |
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@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ individual, versioned kegs. For example: /Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.14/bin/wget -Then symlinks are created to give a normal POSIX tree: +Then symlinks are created to create a normal POSIX tree: -bin/wget -> ../Cellar/wget/1.14/bin/wget +/Brewery/bin/wget -> /Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.14/bin/wget This way the filesystem is the package database. Everything else is now easy. We are made of win. @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ NOTE you have to install git before you can update the package list. *shrug* Why Not MacPorts? ================= -1. MacPorts installs its own libz, its own openssl, etc. It is an autarky. +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. 2. MacPorts support Tiger, and PPC. We don't, so things are better optimised. @@ -95,19 +95,19 @@ Homebrew Will Never Build: Why Compile From Source? ======================== Since we only target Intel Leopard boxes, why not just distribute binaries? -Well, I can't afford too :P And compiling from source gives more flexibility. -If you want to adapt the system and make it work with binaries. Fork away. -Bandwidth is on you though :P +Well, I can't afford to :P And compiling from source gives more flexibility. +If you want to adapt the system and make it work with binaries; fork away. +The bandwidth is on you though :P -How do I Notify Someone that a Package is Out of Date? +How do I Notify Someone that a Package is out of Date? ====================================================== 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 +/recipes -2. Fork Homebrew on github +1. Edit the relevant ruby file in /Brewery/Formula +2. Fork Homebrew on github (or generate a patch) 3. Send mxcl a pull request Congratulations, you have contributed to an open source project! @@ -134,4 +134,4 @@ Yes. Was Homebrew devised under the influence of alchohol? ----------------------------------------------------- -Yes.
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