Homebrew and Discover?

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Hi.

Currently discover supports flatpaks, snaps as some of the extra-installable package managers. It would be great if discover could also update and upgrade homebrew packages too. Since the main point of Discover for me is the unification of installing and updating via different package manager backends.

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I think this is a great idea!

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What’s homebrew?

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A Mac-specific package manager. Some KDE software is packaged there.

I’m very curious to know what setup is being used here, @farhoodet. Are you using Homebrew on a non-Mac machine for some reason?

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I think this would be a nice feature too. Homebrew works very well on Linux these days and I use it regularly. Pretty much every tool I use is packaged and up-to-date in their repos.

My use case is that I like to have the latest version of certain tools like Starship, Atuin, yq, etc., and Homebrew is almost always updated more quickly than my distro’s packages.

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It would be an interesting use of telemetry, if it existed in this form, to answer the question of how many KDE Plasma users:

  • Know what Homebrew is
  • Use it
  • Don’t use a CLI alias to run updates across their package managers (e.g. when I was on Ubuntu I had “updall” aliased to mean sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && flatpak update && sudo snap refresh )
  • Are looking to use KDE Discover for this situation

It’s clearly more than zero…but I imagine at least one of those folks would likely have to dive in themselves and contribute toward the actual build of such a method in Discover, since there won’t really a way to tap into something like packagekit for heavy lifting, I’m guessing?

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Homebrew is installed by default, and is the recommended way to install cli apps in Bazzite.

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