Not removing all dependencies. about homebrew-rmtree

[beeftornado]

Interesting, I'll take a look later. Off the top of my head, if a project doesn't list any dependencies in its formula then there isn't anything that can be done besides updating the formula.

On Jul 11, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Martijn van der Ven [email protected] wrote:

The README warns that rmtree might remove too much, but in my case it seems to be removing too little:

$ brew list
brew-cask brew-rmtree youtube-dl
$ brew install mpv-player/mpv/mpv
$ brew rmtree mpv-player/mpv/mpv
$ brew list
brew-cask glib little-cms2
brew-rmtree jpeg lua
cairo libffi mpg123
fontconfig libpng pixman
freetype libtiff pkg-config
gettext libvo-aacenc youtube-dl
Can anything be done about this?

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[beeftornado]

Thanks for reporting this issue! It turns out that if a formula has dependencies that aren't in the official homebrew repository, meaning they exist in a tap, it sort of throws off everything. The reason for this, is that homebrew places these dependencies in different places in its output from the different commands rmtree needs to execute. The sorting order was assumed to be the same. I've raised an issue with homebrew about this, and in addition I will update rmtree to sort the lists itself. This will resolve your issue.

[Zegnat]

Thanks for looking into this!