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macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

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macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

#1
You can get a list of all installed formulae that are not dependencies of another installed formula via `brew leaves`

Here are mine: age age-plugin-yubikey bat cmake fd ffmpeg fnm fzf gh git gnu-getopt go jq lazygit lsd neovim pinentry-mac qrencode reattach-to-user-namespace restic ripgrep rustup-init starship tmux tree ykman yt-dlp yubikey-agent zoxide zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions

Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

#4
On this computer, asdf bison c-ares cmocka drud/ddev/ddev fd go guile htop imagemagick jj jpeg libedit libiconv libuv libxml2 make nss ocrmypdf php postgresql@14 re2c ripgrep ruby-build smartmontools wireguard-tools zlib, 1password-cli ipatool

I'm not sure the story behind all of those, but I use several of those CLI tools regularly. brew install __ usually gets me what I went when I'm on a Mac and a linux tool is missing when I try to run it.

I'd like brew to handle per-user installations better (you can with a flag, but it'll still have path issues with some installs), but I'm thankful for it overall.

Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

#7
due to its analytics, one can see the number of installs on formulae.brew.sh e.g. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli but I don't offhand know how to show "most popular across formulae"

I also don't offhand know if those "Build Errors" are their bottle build errors, or it reports all build errors

I'm not ignoring your question, but it's also meaningless to post any such thing on HN since

  $ brew list -1 | wc -l
  682

Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

#10

I try to avoid installing anything with brew, because I can't install a new package without first upgrading all my other packages, which often leads to one of them breaking in not-so-fun ways (e.g. an openssl upgrade breaking my Python installation).

Yep, just had some issues with homebrew updating the system to OpenSSL 3 which broke some workflows as OpenSSL 3 can't read Apple Developer certificates...
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