This is actually the mechanism behind Nix-Darwin's Homebrew support. In Nix terms, it uses the module system to generate a Brewfile, and then it invokes the br

This is actually the mechanism behind Nix-Darwin's Homebrew support. In Nix terms, it uses the module system to generate a Brewfile, and then it invokes the brew CLI against that file in the activation script. Nix or no Nix, it's definitely a better way to use Homebrew than ad-hoc, imo!