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`brew` has never been slow for me. (Subjective, obv.)

I've heavily used probably four Linux package managers, plus both major ones on Mac, and have used two or three less-common Linux package managers at least a little bit, plus a couple of the BSDs. Oh, and Chocolatey on Windows.

I've never gotten this complaint about Brew at all. It has never seemed notably slow to me.

Try Arch's pacman which installs hundrets of packages in a few seconds. brew is like factor 50 slower than pacman.

Nothing can feel slow to me anymore after dealing with emerge on gentoo, spending close to 20min solving dependency requirements. Surprisingly, compiling everything was the quick part, the frustration came from dependency resolution

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