Shame on you, Homebrew, for effectively killing FOSS apps from casks.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I never understood what a “cask” in the brew lanuage means. I just do installs and if the brew install instructions involves a cask I just do it. How do I figure out which packages this will have an effect on on my system?

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago
      brew list --cask
      

      I think they’ve started flagging unnotarized apps as (deprecated), so maybe do a brew info on each.

      • M.int@lemmy.zip
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        9 hours ago

        You can simply run brew doctor and it will show you all deprecated casks.

    • SuperUserDO@piefed.ca
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      2 days ago

      Casks are as a rule GUI applications. So if you want to install Firefox with homebrew would need to install it via a cask.