I'm a Linuxbrew user, too, even on top of normal Ubuntu distros because (a) the rapid release cycle you mentioned (b) because so much of my workflow is built on top of Homebrew it was natural for me to just continue using it when I used Ubuntu at work<p>I will also confess(?) that I run it in "unsupported mode"[1] because (a) I often need to fix bugs in the software and tweaking ${whatever}.rb and $(brew reinstall -s -v $whatever) makes that painless (b) I keep my actual $(brew repo) pretty dirty, too, to cure a lot of stupidity introduced by running it in unsupported mode :-D I actually would guess some of the patches would be valuable to the wider community but I lump Homebrew and Elastic into the "I don't have enough emotional energy to survive their PR process" camps<p>1: I don't have the finger-wagging link handy, but McQuaid used to really get bent out of shape about people running --build-from-source; it seems they've changed their mind <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/4.4.6/docs/FAQ.md#can-i-edit-formulae-myself">https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/4.4.6/docs/FAQ.md#can-...</a>