Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

Mac: list deep dependencies of Homebrew formulae

January 7, 2024
Categories: Mac

If you need to dig deeper into the dependencies that brew has installed on your Mac, you can show a complete dependency tree using: brew deps –tree –installed If you need to see who relies on a specific target Formulae: brew uses –installed <targetFormulae> REFERENCES brew.sh, deps command syntax apple.stackexchange, ‘brew deps’ showing all … Mac: list deep dependencies of Homebrew formulae

Mac: multiple Python versions/virtualenv with brew and pyenv

January 4, 2024
Categories: Mac, Python

Although you could use brew to install Python directly, the cleaner way to manage Python versions and isolate Python virtual environments is by using pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv. pyenv allows you to install and switch between different versions of Python, while pyenv-virtualenv provides isolation of pip modules, for independence between projects.