Our Audit of Homebrew

• HomeBrew

  1,313 40,763 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

  I’m a bit puzzled by the wording of this blog post, because it says you’ve worked with Homebrew to do this audit, but your name sounds familiar to me, and indeed if we check Homebrew’s README [1]:

  > Homebrew's maintainers are […long list of names…] William Woodruff […]

  [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

  Is there any reason this is not mentioned in the blog post? I don’t think it would make a difference, but just to clarify things.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• publications

  52 1,401 8.9 Python

  Publications from Trail of Bits

  

  I'm the author of this post and one of the people behind the audit; happy to answer questions about it.

  If you're having trouble finding the audit itself (it's linked indirectly), I'm linking a copy here as well[1].

  [1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/eb9344f2261...

• ixnay

  2 12 5.4 Shell

  Ixnay is a Nix shell wrapper that I'm writing as I learn about Nix and how to do various operations.

  I ditched `brew` for `nix` a while back and while the TUI could be more end-user-friendly (to the point that I wrote a wrapper called "ixnay" just so I could do "ixnay install " as easily as with brew, https://github.com/pmarreck/ixnay), the overall guarantees make it worth it.

• brew-nix

  1 176 7.0 Nix

  Experimental nix expression to package all MacOS casks from homebrew automatically

• pacman

  2 2 2.8 Shell

  pacman for Mac OS X (by liudongmiao)

  The vanilla pacman will not work on macos as expected but there are attempts [1],[2] to make it works with some modifications/hacks.

  [1] https://github.com/liudongmiao/pacman

• pacman-osx

  2 110 10.0

  Instructions for compiling the Arch Linux package manager on macOS

• alejandra

  4 783 4.2 Nix

  The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatter

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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