The only time things break for me because something is replaced by homebrew is because c/c++ projects seem to so overly rely on dependencies (headers, .a files

The only time things break for me because something is replaced by homebrew is because c/c++ projects seem to so overly rely on dependencies (headers, .a files, etc.) being installed by the os globally. Maybe this is better when the project uses Bazel instead of make/(auto)configure.