Almost each time I install something using homebrew, after installing my desired package, it attempts to automatically delete presumably old packages. How can I stop this from occurring? I'm tired of fixing things I'm still using because of whatever logic is encoded into homebrew.
Is there a switch or config setting I can use to disable this behaviour (brew cleanup
)?
EDIT Output when I installed pv
user@host:[ 3:03]$ brew install pv
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated Homebrew from 35f59eb3c to 4bbe34075.
Updated 7 taps (osrf/simulation, homebrew/cask-versions, homebrew/core, homebrew/cask, homebrew/bundle, homebrew/services and adoptopenjdk/openjdk).
==> New Formulae
apt cruft fanyi joplin-cli newrelic-infra-agent ots pari-galpol procps singularity xsel
aws-vault docuum firefoxpwa libaec onedrive pari-elldata pari-seadata pyoxidizer spot
bupstash eigenpy i2c-tools mailcatcher opensearch-dashboards pari-galdata pari-seadata-big rsc_2fa xauth
==> Updated Formulae
Updated 1023 formulae.
==> Renamed Formulae
prestosql -> trino
==> Deleted Formulae
terraform-provisioner-ansible tj
==> New Casks
betterdiscord-installer foxglove-studio kdocs open-video-downloader temurin transfer wifi-explorer-pro
blackhole-64ch gosign leapp shottr temurin11 trezor-suite wing-personal
clay jiohome midi-router-client stork temurin8 vym zebra2
==> Updated Casks
Updated 684 casks.
==> Deleted Casks
3cxphone anytrans-for-android deadbeef macclean phoneclean phonetrans spectrum uberconference youtube-dl-gui
anytrans baiducloud imobie-m1-app-checker phonebrowse phonerescue postgres-beta superbeam wingpersonal
==> Homebrew was updated to version 3.2.8
The changelog can be found at:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases/tag/3.2.8
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/pv/manifests/1.6.6-1
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/pv/blobs/sha256:9bb586c4dab67989e7fa800e7c764d1d4ee153db8ad7a5ed3563270ca93a7497
==> Downloading from https://pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sha256:9bb586c4dab67989e7fa800e7c764d1d4ee153db8ad7a5ed3563270ca93a7497?se=2021-08-20T10%3A15%3A00Z&sig=w9ejSn6NMsklM8vDAsWuJ1vv5MjiW3cYS4Cca7bPWHI%3D&sp=r&spr=https&sr=b&sv=2
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring pv--1.6.6.catalina.bottle.1.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/pv/1.6.6: 5 files, 112.8KB
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
Removing: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/c-ares--1.17.1... (162.9KB)
Removing: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/eigen--3.3.9... (1.1MB)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.52... (1,678 files, 69.3MB)
Error: Directory not empty @ dir_s_rmdir - /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.52
pcre2
. During the install, brew also installed gcc11 and while doing so removed my automatically installed gcc10 in the process but changed the gcc@10 symlink to point to the gcc11 install). This created a problem for me because in the interim, I had built some libraries for my apache server that rely on gcc10. I wasn't aware this change was going to occur when I installedpcre2
, nor that it had occurred, and this caused my apache server to stop working, which took a while to figure out why. (Perhaps I should rephrase my question then?)