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thewebguyd 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

Stable as in unchanging, sure.

Stable can also mean "you get to keep all the bugs present in this version for the next 4+ years"

jandrese 27 days ago [–]

Or worse, the kernel moves beyond the package in the repo so a year and a half later it doesn't even work anymore.

VirtualBox is really bad about this.

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