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jthegedus / dotfiles

Dotfiles & Developer Environment. Supports Ubuntu2004+, macOS Catalina+, Windows 10 w WSL
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Use Brewfile for installing packages on MacOS #22

Closed christippett closed 4 years ago

christippett commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Homebrew allows you to declare which packages (including casks) you'd like installed in a Brewfile. Rather than peppering the install scripts with brew install's, desired packages could be listed in a Brewfile that's committed to the repository and then referenced as part of the install process. This would allow users to customise their environments by editing a single resource, instead of inspecting and modifying the underlying scripts.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a step within setup-devtools.bash to call brew bundle --global and install any and all packages listed in the user's Brewfile located in their home directory. This Brewfile would be symlinked from a version sourced from the dotfiles repository (config/Brewfile).

Describe alternatives you've considered Keep the status quo and install relevant packages inline within the install scripts.

Additional context NA

jthegedus commented 4 years ago

I only recently learnt about brewfiles and expected it to be a large refactor so didn't look into it. I like how easy this is as I do want to keep these dotfiles fairly simple compared to the others out there. Thanks