Show HN: Arch Mac – pacman on macOS

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5 pointslloeki4 comments

Looks interesting, but I'd love to see a bit more info on the landing page. Is the idea that this would replace something like the homebrew package manager / repos on MacOS?

Precisely. It's definitely working well enough that I've been using it for a while on all my machines. There are still quite a number of things to do† but I wanted to get this out, and at some point I just had to pull the trigger instead of endlessly postponing because of yet-another-thing.

I'll be polishing the landing page with more details for sure. What kind of information do you think would be most useful on the landing page?

† more packages, proper onboarding, some cleanups, PGP repo+package signing...

I would say that a clear purpose (i.e. what is the problem that Arch Mac solves) would go a long way on the landing page.

If there is an open issue I can put some time into helping flesh that out.

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