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0 pointssroussey11mo ago0 comments

I also had a bad time with brew back then. On new machines these days no issues at all.

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timcobb11mo ago· 2 in thread

Every time I need to update anything on brew, I end up updating thousands of packages and it goes on and on for a long time.

The trick for smooth experience is to treat it like `pacman -Syu`:

  brew update && brew upgrade && brew autoremove && brew cleanup && brew doctor

Running this every few days and fixing everything that it explicitly complains about kept me issue-free for the last 10 years or so.

timcobb11mo ago

Interesting, thank you. That makes sense, but it is not convenient IMO.

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