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macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

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

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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).

# Do not automatically upgrade anything export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1

Thanks for this. In case anyone finds this in the future, note that after setting this, and running `brew install blah`, it will output "Running `brew update --auto-update`..." and then appear to hang. Just press ctrl+c and it will continue to installation.
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