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a little off topic but i really dislike the design of Homebrew around using git as update mechanism.

brew update is taking way too slow every time i need to install something now.

Yeah I wonder if there’s a good way to keep it updated. I found an older blog post that puts their updating in .zshrc but I feel there must be better ways.

http://craigstjean.com/2016/02/Keeping-Homebrew-Up-to-Date-W...

i would cron this before i blocked loading the prompt with such a slow check.

but i don't want to update all the packages to latest always though.

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