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- This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g.
brew install wget
. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.
Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature
For versioned formulae seperate it from its non versioned formula.
For example currently [email protected]
is aliased with ruby
.
If I do brew install [email protected]
, it's install ruby
. So when ruby 3.5 is released Homebrew will upgrade it.
However we can make brew install [email protected]
install [email protected]
. So when ruby 3.5 is released it is still pinned to ruby 3.4.x releases.
What is the motivation for the feature?
The idea is to match formula dependencies behaviour to formulae installation.
For example if I add [email protected] as a dependency the formula stays pointed to @3.4
and not ruby
How will the feature be relevant to at least 90% of Homebrew users?
Less confusion with versioned formulae. As there is no difference between installing latest versioned formulae and old versioned formulae.
What alternatives to the feature have been considered?
Accept the current behaviour :(
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