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by giamma 338 days ago
The "brew info" command provides some information, so it would be great if the tool provided a button to fetch the "brew info" output on demand and if it provided a direct link to the homepage as opposed to having to perform two clicks; a tiny home icon next to the info icon would be good.

Folllows sample output for "brew info mc"

  ==> midnight-commander: stable 4.8.33 (bottled), HEAD
  Terminal-based visual file manager
  https://www.midnight-commander.org/
  Conflicts with:
    minio-mc (because both install an `mc` binary)
  Installed
  /usr/local/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.33 (357 files, 7.8MB) \*
    Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2025-02-03 at 09:30:23
  From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/m/midnight-commander.rb
  License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  ==> Dependencies
  Build: pkgconf 
  Required: glib , libssh2 , openssl@3 , s-lang , diffutils , gettext 
  ==> Options
  --HEAD
   Install HEAD version
  ==> Analytics
  install: 3,043 (30 days), 10,456 (90 days), 65,490 (365 days)
  install-on-request: 3,043 (30 days), 10,451 (90 days), 65,472 (365 days)
  build-error: 0 (30 days)
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You can click "Get Info" from the same menu to see this information.