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.nixpkgs
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
Regarding GUI applications: you're probably talking about the Nixpkgs repository, rather than the Nix tool itself.
I use the following Nix function to install GUI applications https://github.com/cmacrae/.nixpkgs/blob/d4b51eb414b0edaffae...
It doesn't work for everything, but I use it at the moment for Amethyst, DBeaver, DockerDesktop, Emacs, Firefox, iTerm2, Postman, Slack and VNCViewer.
proj
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
Conan can be made to do what homebrew does with minimal effort, I have written some convenience wrappers around it which makes it slightly easier to use for this use case, you can have a look here: https://gitlab.com/aucampia/proj/xonan
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-cask-versions - 💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
opensource.how - Open-source etiquette
arkade - Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools
dotfiles - 🦬 My configuration
homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
PostgresApp - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
nix-dotfiles - Dotfiles for my Nix setup