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--overwrite
should always overwrite links
#16864
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We do have a discussions page for these sorts of questions. Does |
Probably need a specific example in order to provide context. Like what exact command you were running when it errored and at least some command output before the error. Without any extra info, I am guessing this is related to linking dependencies since I think |
I'm very sorry I missed that discussions is open in this repo. As said: install --overwrite still asks when dependency link conflicts are happening.That usually happens with long running compiles. In the end it often takes me literally days to install one piece of software because every other dependency throws such a link overwrite conflict... |
Can you be more specific here? |
I'll post a report when not AFK |
@MikeMcQuaid for example, I recently tried to install Very often, if not all the time, I use I can't repro this specific install anymore, because after 2-3 reruns I'm finally through with manual linking solving. With
Does that clarify what I'm asking? |
Yes, thanks. It is indeed unexpected/a bug that |
--overwrite
should always overwrite links
This is confusing. Very strange that May need to understand your setup better with |
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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
I'm sorry for posting this as an issue here, I would have rather opened a discussion about it, if that where available here. Sorry again, you might not like that I'm simply asking a question and am not sure if I even have a feature request.
homebrew on my machine takes quite some time for any package to install. And after "minutes" or even hours it stops continuing because it asks me questions like this:
Which I always answer by tediously copying and pasting. Yes please overwrite, I don't care!
So what I'm asking myself is, is there any options that allow to simply tell brew to just always overwrite links? I tried this but it doesn't seem to work. I still get stops during longish runs:
If such an "always overwrite links" option currently is not available then this would actually be the feature I would like to request. Thanks for you consideration! Please get back to me with any thoughts, improvement suggestions of my workflow or criticism on my report! All welcome! Thanks a lot for your time and efforts!
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