homebrew-core

What people said

• “> If Postgres has an unversioned dependency to PackageX, the only time I might expect Postgres to be updated automatically is if I update PackageX across a major version boundary, risking breaking changes. Homebrew doesn't meaningfully have versioned or unversioned dependencies,…”

• “I didn't know before this post that Homebrew's infamous ‘auto-update’ only automatically updated the dependency closure of whatever you were installing/upgrading, which sounds more or less correct to me. > Now, Homebrew has a choice. Either we upgrade _everything_ that depends on…”

• “Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp (262 points)”