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Comment by egorfine | Hacker News Reader

PSA: Title is misleading. This is not a GUI for homebrew packages.

Did the title get changed? It just says "for homebrew", which seems to be true:

"Any application that can be found in the Homebrew Catalog is available on Applite. Use the search function to find all applications in Applite."

and

"Can I use Applite with my existing Homebrew installation? Yes, you can."

You can try this app and see for yourself that it is a GUI for a relatively unknown and minor part of homebrew and not the for actual homebrew.

I have but I've been trying to figure out what you mean since e.g. Slack (from homebrew) did show for me. Based on this I take it you mean you expected the cli (core) homebrew apps to also show not just gui (casks) ones? I think that's a fair complaint, it just wasn't clear from the PSA.

What are typically the first packages you install on a fresh machine? For me these are libpng, libjpeg, xz, pigz, ccache, ninja, git. None of that is manageable via this app.

From my current mac these show up: Slack, Beeper, 1Password, KeeWeb Teams, Chrome, Firefox, Signal, Zoom, Sublime, iTerm2. I have very little in the way of other apps except the defaults + a few only available on the official App Store. Most all of my 3rd party CLI stuff is in Linux, via iTerm2+built in SSH.

Wait, then what is it? The title says it's a gui for homebrew and that seems to be what it is.

It's a GUI for a minor specific part of homebrew, but not for the packages.

Casks are more than "minor" I'd say, but it wouldn't hurt to spell it out as "a macOS native GUI for managing homebrew casks".

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