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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by sofixa on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:30PM (#45598028)
Brew is pretty terrible though. It's slow, and doesn't handle updates/versions/dependencies all that well.

I've had it make major (with breaking changes) updates to random software when asked to install something unrelated.

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Re:M5 MacBook Pro by inkyoto on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:44PM (#45599746) 

  HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1

  HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1

  export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK
brew is fine. Not the best package manager, not the worst one either.
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