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I love Homebrew, especially since I (recently) realized I could use brew cask to install all my desktop applications. I liked the analytics feature in this release. Just the other day, I was looking at alternatives to official Chromium builds that would auto-update. I stumbled upon freesmug-chromium but didn't know how actively it is used by the community. Now I know.

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I didn't know that was public. It's available at https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/ for anyone curious

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.

> 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).

Automation is great but you're opening up yourself to a security problem by hoping the manifest file is never tainted when you install or update. I can manage to install and update less than 10 non App Store apps without thinking of getting backdoored binary from slipping in at one time.

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