Multiple unknown packages

[TikoyX]

Hello everyone

I am running a mac with OS version 12.6, Homebrew version 3.6.3.

I currently have about 70 packages installed, but it is only about 10 of the packages i can recognise as something i have installed.
There was already preinstalled packages in there when i installed Homebrew (as far as i remember) and the list of unknown packages just increses over time.

I have tried the brew autoremove which did remove some of it, but is there a way i can see what packages are linked together? It is starting to get a bit weird and i dont know if i should just start to delete packages i don't know.

Thank you in advance!

[SMillerDev]

You can run brew deps --tree <name> for the packages you installed to see what each package pulled in as a dependency.

[TikoyX]

aaaarh awesome! Thank you very much!
Wish there was a command for just showing "main packages" and not all the stuff that was "side installed"

[TikoyX]

Apparently that should be brew leaves but that still gives me packages i don't recognise

[unikitty37]

Is there a command where I can get Homebrew to tell me which package installed a particular file? brew deps doesn't seem to support this.

I'm hoping to type something like brew what-installed /opt/homebrew/bin/imginfo and get the package name output.

[SMillerDev]

Since it's all symlinks, ls -al /opt/Homebrew/bin/<something> will tell you what package the symlink points

[unikitty37]

🤦

Thanks! I have ls aliased to ls -CF, as well, so I should have noticed the @ at the end…