Comment on Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks.

• lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How will these other solutions bypass Apples quarantine?

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  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    By doing what homebrew currently does when you pass the --no-quarantine flag, which is call xattr.

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    • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Notarisation, free (as in beer) limits your ability to run your code that (Corporate) doesn’t like, making it inherently non free (as in freedom).

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      • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, but you can still compile the code yourself. It’s only problematic for binary distribution.

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, theres macports and what else? Is macports even kickin still? No other package managers other than homebrew

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  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pretty sure it’s still around. Nix is an option as well.

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