I've heavily used probably four Linux package managers, plus both major ones on Mac, and have used two or three less-common Linux package managers at least a little bit, plus a couple of the BSDs. Oh, and Chocolatey on Windows.
I've never gotten this complaint about Brew at all. It has never seemed notably slow to me.
Nothing can feel slow to me anymore after dealing with emerge on gentoo, spending close to 20min solving dependency requirements. Surprisingly, compiling everything was the quick part, the frustration came from dependency resolution
I've never gotten this complaint about Brew at all. It has never seemed notably slow to me.