[jrochkind1]

It makes sense semantically to me, and would be fine/preferable if `brew update` only took a few seconds to complete.

Cause otherwise I'm not necessarily going to remember to brew update ever, and am going to be getting old formulae. I think I'm not alone, I suspect this was done because too many users were never updating.

I am not super familair with how apt works, but I think the "workflows" of brew are already different than typical apt uses, with continuous incremental releases, and users expected to stay up to date with them -- things aren't necessarily going to keep working (installing properly) if you never run `brew update`, and I think many users were not.

I do want `brew install` to get me the latest formula for the thing I'm installing.

The problem is when it can add several minutes to a `brew install` invocation, interupting my ability to get on with my business.

But good to know about the env variable so at least I can choose which tradeoff I want!