Remove stale lock files and outdated downloads for all formulae and casks, and This command removes downloads for outdated formulas and casks. If you want to take your tidy-up routine to the next level, you can also run brew cleanup. Uninstall formulae that were only installed as a dependency of another formula So say goodbye to unneeded dependencies and messy brew list output. The autoremove command removes all the hanging, no longer needed packages from your computer. Luckily, there’s a simple solution to solve this problem. After a while, it is easy to end up with hundreds of programs that clutter your hard drive. Unfortunately, when you reverse this process with brew uninstall git, the main formula disappears, but you end up with two no longer needed dependencies. Compare it with the output of brew leaves that shows only top-level packages (most likely the ones you explicitly installed).įor instance, when you do brew install git, you add git executable and gettext and pcre2 as dependencies. Have you ever been wondering why brew list comes back with a gazillion packages even though you installed only a handful of them? These are your packages and all their dependencies. If you don’t, check out my “Homebrew - the best friend of the macOS user” that I published a few years ago. You’re reading it, so I assume you know what the brew is and most likely, you use it.
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