[ryandrake]

Dependencies are totally out of control, in much of OSS, not just Homebrew. I probably have 5-6 leaf node packages that I actually installed with brew install, but brew list shows close to 100 little dependencies. Same with apt on my Ubuntu/Debian systems. I physically installed a handful of applications but my system has hundreds of packages installed. At least it’s not DLL Hell: the dependency management tools are great and uninstallation is clean, but wow what an explosion of quantity of dependencies!

I don’t use node but I understand it’s a mess there too.

[eric-hu]

There’s command to see your leaf dependencies:

https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#leaves---installed-on-request--...

[ryandrake]

Yep I use that a lot. I like to make sure I only have installed what I need to survive, and uninstall everything else.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

But it's nice to reuse code

[happymellon]

Isn't it nice to reuse code so you dont have to write it twice?

It doesn't mean we can't run it twice.

[iforgotmysocks]

You might be able to a nice graph with this command: brew deps --installed --graph