Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub

Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by mh- on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:01AM (#12329931)

I don't disagree with your assertion about the state of Homebrew, but I wanted to point out the `leaves` subcommand.

  brew leaves:
      Show installed formulae that are not dependencies of another installed formula.

I'm not sure if it persists this state or simply calculates it on-the-fly by enumerating your installed formulae. But it does seem like the same data or functionality could be used to prevent your uninstalled-deps scenario.

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by clhodapp on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:41AM (#12330026)

Hmm... Interesting. I don't think that "brew leaves" truly solves the problem, though, since the list it generates will include explicitly-installed leaves in addition to no-longer-needed dependencies. It can help narrow the list of potential candidates for removal, though, which is nice.

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