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by maximegarcia 2685 days ago
I tried to do that for smtg I can't remember. Turns out that it added a lot of deps and compiled the app. I didn't liked it and uninstalled it and brew kept all the deps installed.

It seems it misses an "automatically" installed flag in order to remove the deps I didn't have specifically installed myself in the first place. Would be very great for brew to have that.

Now I avoid trying new apps through brew.

An indication of the formula downloading a pre-built binary or compiling it would be nice too, btw.

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> It seems it misses an "automatically" installed flag in order to remove the deps I didn't have specifically installed myself in the first place. Would be very great for brew to have that.

You can use `brew bundle dump` and `brew bundle cleanup` to achieve this (I often do the same).