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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by pwinnski on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:08PM (#26038522)
That is frustrating, but fortunately `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` will take care of it. Then you have to remember to update every now and then yourself, though.
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by m000 on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:26PM (#26038738)
Would you happen to know how to disable upgrading unrelated packages?

I often do `brew upgrade X`. Brew indeed does what is necessary to upgrade package X + deps. But then goes on and starts upgrading unrelated packages.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by jacobsenscott on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:09PM (#26039332)
Brew does not start randomly upgrading unrelated packages.

Packages have dependencies, and those dependencies have dependencies. Try `brew deps ---tree x` to see all the dependencies for you package.

Look at `brew pin` to pin packages you don't want brew to upgrade.

Many formula are versioned. For example if you install `postgresql` it will do major upgrades of postgres as they become available, but if you install `[email protected]` it will only install updates to 9.6.

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