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How many packages are there in the homebrew repos for macOS? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/macos

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I'm curious how many packages are there available for macOS compared to linux distributions.

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[–] Zachariah 2 points 6 months ago

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/
https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

To give you an actual answer, I ran brew search --eval-all --desc "/.*/" |wc -l which I think should have returned all formulas and casks (usually graphical apps that aren't installed like "regular" UN*X tools) in the main brew repo (plus the few taps I have) and I got 14076

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