[spacedcowboy]

Not going to list them all, but...

@M4MBP ~ % brew list | wc -l

149

[troupo]

Some/many of those are likely to be dependencies. For example, it shows openssl@1.1 and openssl@3 on my machine

[spacedcowboy]

Right, but I don't think that's the issue.

If the complaint is that other systems are less up-to-date than brew is, then the number of things installed is still the issue - whether they're dependencies or not.

Unless, of course, the other system manages dependencies differently, say it compiles in static versions of required libraries at build-time, or divides them up into fewer dependent packages.

[mbirth]

`brew leaves` will show manually installed packages.