Homebrew’s dependency resolution was a complete joke the last time I checked it out, but they were completely happy with the laughable results so I won’t be sur

Homebrew’s dependency resolution was a complete joke the last time I checked it out, but they were completely happy with the laughable results so I won’t be surprised if it hasn’t changed. Essentially it did all dependency resolution at build time (because brew used to have no prebuilt binaries and everyone’s workstation would spend 90 minutes compiling the same things over and over again). But when they added binary distribution they didn’t change the dependency resolution to work like eg deb’s or rpm’s do. It used to be that if you told it to install from source it would thus be able to “detect” your local existing package that provides the dependency. It may just take a while depending on what you’re installing.