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Firstly, I want to say this would be a feature for once Orion is out of closed Beta for obvious reasons.

I, amongst I imagine many others, love to use Homebrew (brew, brew.sh) to manage all installed packages on macOS. It allows for extremely quick package management, installation and storing installed package sets into a flat file (backup-able) place for easy environment restoration. I wouldn't be out of place saying most packages that are available on macOS, big or small, are available to install via brew in only one command, much like apt or yum on various linux distros.

I think once we see Orion enter an open Beta or full release, it would be a great addition and probably assist in increasing adoption by adding more installation methods.

    I always found brew clunky. Anytime I use it it wants to upgrade previous packages which takes like 10 minutes.

    Even without it is installing windowed apps from command line really a thing?

      Vlad There are a few GUI apps that have Homebrew casks available. It's not too common, though.

      I'd personally prefer the DMG for simplicity's sake. I think the main benefits to a homebrew cask is checking for, then installing, any dependencies. For example if an app requires ffmpeg, the cask can make sure that ffmpeg is installed before it downloads the app and adds it to the applications folder, meaning there's no need for an installer and no need to ship every app file with ffmpeg. I might be wrong on this, though. It also assists the end user by automating the process of opening the DMG, dragging to the applications folder, then unmounting and deleting the DMG.

      That being said, I don't think Orion needs a homebrew cask- but it would be a "nice to have", if it's not too difficult.

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