DK on MacOS: Homebrew vs. .pkg installer

[Nick Seward]

I don’t know the exact lag between official release and the homebrew version. As soon as I see the general DK update message I’m able to update via homebrew later that evening. It’s fast. 

Regarding the DB, mine is on a separate server on the local network and I don’t notice any lag. Maybe on the initial scan of my photo directory is all. 
I did it to allow me the flexibility to move computers should I want to. I should be able to install DK, point it to my networked drive of photos and the external DB and not notice a thing. 
You can run an external DB on the same machine running DK too. No network delay concerns there. 

Nick

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, at 7:50 AM, Thomas wrote:
> Hi Nick,
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>
> Thanks for sharing your experience!
>
> A couple of questions:
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> 1: How quickly does the homebrew package tend to be updated when a new 
> release of DK is publised?
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> 2: You mention that you moved from a local db to external Mariadb. May I 
> ask what were the major drivers for this change? I would imagine moving 
> the db external to the machine running DK would come with a performance 
> penalty due to the introduction of network latency.
>
> BR
>
> Thomas
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>
> On 2025-08-20 13.17, Nick Seward wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I’ve been using the homebrew install of DK for over 3 years now.
>> I run it on Apple silicon, an M2 mini. I had it with the local SQL db to start and now I have it connecting to an external MariaDB database.
>> No issues or loss of features that I can see.
>>
>> It may not be officially managed by the DK team but it’s always up to date.
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>> Of course you can validate this by comparing the hash of the homebrew version with the downloadable pkg.
>>
>> Nick