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teilo

7 years ago

In reply toShow HN: Linuxify – Transform the MacOS CLI into a GNU/Linux CLI Experienceby fabiomaia

Very bad idea, and one that will cause a lot of breakage. There’s a reason every package management system on Mac uses its own prefix.

sigfubar7 years ago

What are you talking about? I've been using a similar homegrown setup for many years and never had any issues. In fact, I've come to appreciate being able to write directly on my Mac shell scripts destined to run on Linux boxen in production.

fabiomaiasigfubar7 years ago

I had a similar goal I guess: make my dotfiles, scripts and workflow the same across macOS and Linux. :)

fabiomaia7 years ago

I understand things can break, but I have yet to run into such issues. Specifically, what exactly can break by replacing e.g. coreutils with GNU's?

_skel7 years ago

I haven't ever broken macOS doing stuff like that, and I've been doing it for years, with both Macports and Homebrew.

I use the default prefix and make sure the Homebrew stuff is in my $PATH before the built-in stuff and it works fine.