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Re:Homebrew 1.9.0 by bhaak on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:40AM (#18864257)
Your explanation makes sense for bottles, not for Homebrew itself. Homebrew is still at its core "build from source".

This is exactly what the bottle bot does, building the same formulas you have on your machine. Why should this no longer work?

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Re:Homebrew 1.9.0 by Hackbraten on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:51AM (#18864320)
Unless the user sets specific build options, or runs `brew install --build-from-source`, Homebrew installs core packages from a bottle hosted on Bintray by default.

While I agree in that building from source is somewhat at Homebrew’s core (as that’s what happens at bottle creation time), the intention is to deliver core packages to end users via bottle as often as possible.

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