I don't get it... If you've never used homebrew, and are only really a user of other package managers, why are you attempting to offer advice on what they've been doing for years.
Is this classic "I have an opinion and all of my opinions are great, so I must pontificate!"?
Maybe you should just trust that the developers of the only successful package manager for OS X have some idea of what their users want and need... and that as someone who has NEVER used their software, and not a seasoned veteran of any sort of similar projects, your opinion counts WAY less than any of their actual users.
Because I'm interested in package managers in general, and I'd like them to improve across operating systems. And I am a seasoned(9 years) veteran of several Linux distributions.
Is this classic "I have an opinion and all of my opinions are great, so I must pontificate!"?
Maybe you should just trust that the developers of the only successful package manager for OS X have some idea of what their users want and need... and that as someone who has NEVER used their software, and not a seasoned veteran of any sort of similar projects, your opinion counts WAY less than any of their actual users.