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I typed `brew install git-filter-repo`
and
here is the first ~22% of what happened next.
This is a tiny utility to do mass textual search and replace. It arguably should be part of git itself, or, that failing, a small script.
The utility itself is ~4000 lines of Python.
Its transitive dependencies appear to include emacs and •two• separate versions of PostreSQL.
??!?!
UPDATE: It appear the culprit is brew itself, helpfully upgrading everything when I install anything. Apparently?
UPDATE: I’m slightly unclear on whether these are all truly dependencies or just brew trying to be helpful and upgrade stuff I already had installed, but (1) I think it’s the former and (2) I suspect python is the culprit.
I could actually answer this question by looking at the logs, but life is too short for that shit.
@inthehands I looked at the logs for you. And no these are not dependencies but dependents. There are only two direct dependencies and four transitive dependencies. Brew is trying to help you by upgrading everything else that also depends on the four dependencies it upgraded. This is needed since otherwise you would run into errors by the dynamic linker because a binary could require an older version of the library than the one you actually have.
@inthehands And brew helpfully tells you it's possible to avoid this behavior by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK. It's just buried somewhere on your second page of output.