simple command to list all user installed items (not installed only as dependency) about brew

[apainintheneck]

I don't think we need a separate command for this behavior but adding an option to brew list sounds reasonable to me. I'm imagining porting the--installed-on-request switch used in brew leaves over to brew list.

[vassudanagunta]

Wow, that was fast. Thank you @ZhongRuoyu! And also @apainintheneck and @MikeMcQuaid for being so receptive. I will update the StackOverflow answer later today.

[vassudanagunta]

brew list -r certainly meets the requirement of "simple command", and adding a switch to filter the output of an existing command keeps the command set simple. The consistency with brew leaves -r is an additional plus.

Makes me wonder if, in retrospect, brew list --leaves would have been better than adding brew leaves, i.e. a single parameterized list command. e.g. brew list -l -r to list all leaves that were user installed.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I'm imagining porting the--installed-on-request switch used in brew leaves over to brew list.

Makes sense, agreed, to cover the case where a user wants to see non-leaves dependencies. Adding help wanted.

Makes me wonder if, in retrospect, brew list --leaves would have been better than adding brew leaves, i.e. a single parameterized list command. e.g. brew list -l -r to list all leaves that were user installed.

🤷🏻 maybe. Too late now, not gonna be removed.