Breaking the momentum and institutional adoption of homebrew is non-trivial but the developer community needs to band together unless we want to be slaves to Apple's whims forever. The current homebrew maintain Mike McQuaid clearly had no interest in listening to users.
Mike McQuaid has been doing this a long time and there are more egregious examples in the past. I got off the Homebrew train when Little Snitch caught Homebrew phoning home without my consent and the response from him was, the developers have already decided to implement telemetry in an opt-out fashion and any pushback to that already made decision is "abusive" to the maintainers.
The Homebrew maintainers are not trustworthy. Don't use their software. If a fork was going to be feasible, it already would have happened.
Unfortunately, requires root, no Intel mac, no reuse of the large brew manifest library... The first 3 opened issues capture the core deficiencies perfectly
It's a pity the original author got lost in the crypto rabbit hole
https://tea.xyz/
There's also Sps2 which is written in Rust but it's very early stage
https://github.com/alexykn/sps2
Breaking the momentum and institutional adoption of homebrew is non-trivial but the developer community needs to band together unless we want to be slaves to Apple's whims forever. The current homebrew maintain Mike McQuaid clearly had no interest in listening to users.