Re: MacOSX home-brew bundle question

[Ben Abbott]

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:44 AM, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Am 25.04.2016 um 01:12 schrieb Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 
>>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Am 24.04.2016 um 20:25 schrieb Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>>>> 
>>>> Sebastian,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m having some difficulty understanding each homebrew install command. In 
>>>> particular, why these two commands ....
>>>> 
>>>> ./brew install homebrew/x11/imake
>>>> ./brew install schoeps/homebrew-xfig/transfig
>>>> 
>>>> … rather than …
>>>> 
>>>> ./brew install imake
>>>> ./brea install transfig
>>> 
>>> homebrew has various repositories (e.g. science, x11). The syntax above is 
>>> short for 'brew tap x11' (add the repository x11) and 'brew install imake' 
>>> (from x11). The transfig package is not officially included in homebrew. 
>>> However, I found a working formula and forked it. I am planning to make a 
>>> pull request for that at homebrew.
>> 
>> Regarding transfig, does the syntax indicate you’re using a local formula? 
>> Or is it an informal solution that will work for me as well?
> 
> It will work for you, too. 'schoeps/homebrew-xfig/transfig' means 
> 'http://github.com/schoeps/homebrew-xfig/transfig.rb'.
> 
> Seb.

I didn’t realize that Homebrew was able to use non-formal formulas. That is a 
very cool feature!

Ben