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bhaak on Feb 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homebrew 2.0.0 released

I would say that a package manager shouldn't break the runtime dependencies of your installed programs. That's really a poor design.

But you can also just copy the previous version into the new readline directory.

cp /usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.5/lib/lib*.7.dylib /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/

Although this will break with the next readline update.

bkanber on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

That only works if you have the previous version on your machine, which we did not.

bhaak on Feb 2, 2019 | [–]

But then that package you wanted to install was not a Homebrew package?

Otherwise the dependency management in Homebrew is even worse than I knew.

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