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📥 Homebrew (un)installer

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2016-04-25 · latest 2026-02-22

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  1. ▲ 4
    Google keyword `brew` points to a malicious site with false instructions
    story by latexr · 2026-02-22 · 0 comments
  2. …the Xcode application. [0]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/107307/how-can-i-i... [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/ee0036121331ff32d72...
    comment by ericrallen · 2025-01-23 · in Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
  3. https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew
    comment by costent · 2023-10-03 · in No one knows how to uninstall Homebrew
  4. Heh, you and I posted about the same time, but it seems that's actually only true for arm64: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install.sh#L...
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-09-03 · in Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
  5. …while digging up supporting evidence I noticed that they bizarrely only do that for arm64 installs: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install.sh#L...
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-09-03 · in Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
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    Homebrew package manager installer merges Apple Silicon support
    story by phrz · 2020-12-28 · 0 comments
  7. …this but I feel the discomfort so since getting off my flight I've opened and merged three PRs ( https://github.com/Homebrew/install/pull/42 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/143 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/146 ) to better…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2016-04-25 · in Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics