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flutter-less xcode image? #115

Closed umlaeute closed 7 months ago

umlaeute commented 7 months ago

i wonder if you would consider providing images that only have brew+XCode, but no flutter, android-sdk and the like.

As of now, i need to uninstall a couple of packages first in order to be able to use brew:

brew uninstall -f android-ndk android-sdk temurin8 libimobiledevice ideviceinstaller ios-deploy fastlane libusb libusbmuxd

my understanding is, that this is because i'm using the monterey images (ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-monterey-xcode:latest): these images are no longer updated (by you), but come with a an outdated (by new) brew installation that fails on the formula of one or another of the installed packages.

the lesson i learned from this is, that the more dependencies are pre-installed, the more can go stale and break things.

(otoh, i do want XCode pre-installed, as it is huge; and a basic brew installation is also very welcome)

fkorotkov commented 7 months ago

We are trying to keep the VM image as lean as possible but not planning to remove Flutter or have a separate variant. There is too much historical reasons.

umlaeute commented 7 months ago

fair enough.

so how can I use brew on macos-monterey-xcode:latest? and if that ship has sailed, are there any plans for future images to not fall into the same trap?