brew

What people said

• “- Homebrew: - Free Software Foundation (FSF): - LibreOffice:”

• “Homebrew has a healthy amount of maintainers. Some people leave as priorities change but others join.”

• “I've opened to improve the discoverability and documentation for all this stuff.”

• “It seems this is the issue in question: The maintainer did close they issue but they didn't lock the thread. If there was a very valid reason the request got shot down, it went unstated afaict. (Fair enough if they just don't allow fea…”

• “Homebrew staff have rejected the concept of automatic upgrades for security, stability, and semver:”

• “They have a separate env var with language that matches OP's experience: HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_UPGRADE If set, brew install will not automatically upgrade installed but outdated formulae (that's a fake hyperlink cause they do…”

• “You can disable autoupdate by setting HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE env”

• “Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software (345 points)”