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		sofixa 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M5 MacBook Pro 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.

inkyoto 70 days ago [–]

  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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