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Which, as someone pointed out in a separate comment thread here, Homebrew is already doing. I'm not sure what else you want from them, they seem to be following best practices here.


Existing installs were not prompted. You had to catch it in the patch notes, IIRC.


Not prompted but were notified.


The notification when it first came out wasn’t really noticeable for a tool that frequently has a lot of output an average user running `brew upgrade` would be used to ignoring. Prompting would have been the better choice. I didn’t notice until the change hit HN and created a bit of a shit storm.

PS: Despite my feelings of disagreement on how brew handled this, I still appreciate your work.


Homebrew literally never prompts for anything so a prompt would likely break many scripts.


You are right. If I put more thought into my comment I would have urged them to prompt the user. But I rushed, and the post was invalid and senseless.




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