If I’m reading the formula docs right, only homebrew-core packages don’t support it (due to CI not testing them). That part does suck, though.
Other taps, like homebrew-ffmpeg, offer a ton of options.
Other taps, like homebrew-ffmpeg, offer a ton of options.
The other issue I experienced with homebrew around that time were related to having different versions of openssl installed because I had some old codebase I had to run (and for performance reasons didn't want to use docker). But that's definitely a edge case.