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lrvickyesterday at 5:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Homebrew is like giving a bunch of wikipedia randos remote shell access to your computer. There is no enforced code review policy. Any maintainer can make a commit under a pseudonym and merge their own code to main without review.

Homebrew should not be allowed near any machine you need to be able to trust.


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quadrifoliateyesterday at 8:13 PM

> Homebrew is like giving a bunch of wikipedia randos...

And I'm guessing you go to https://www.britannica.com/ when you want to learn something about a new topic, right?

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pramtoday at 2:20 AM

This isn't true at all lol, if you make a PR to the formulas it is certainly reviewed. By a real human no less. wtf are you talking about

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