ggpeti/homebrew-rmrec

Quick and simple command to remove a Homebrew package and its dependencies.

brew rmrec

This is a brew command to remove a package and all of its dependencies recursively. Only removes packages that are not depended on by other, unrelated packages.

Usage

brew tap ggpeti/rmrec
brew rmrec pkgname

homebrew-rmrec's Issues

Doesn't appear to handle namespaced packages properly

I installed pygtk on a system via Linuxbrew where it pulled in linuxbrew/xorg/xorg and when I attempted to remove it using rmrec it removed everything except this package (and it's dependencies). Explicitly trying to remove it via rmrec also returned immediately with no output.

Needs to be made recursive

It needs to be made recursive to remove the unused dependencies of dependencies and their unused dependencies, etc. Otherwise, a very nice little script.