How to clean unused homebrew dependencies

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00:00 How To Clean Unused Homebrew Dependencies
00:25 Answer 1 Score 57
01:07 Accepted Answer Score 128
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 128

You can get rid of all unused dependencies using brew autoremove in HomeBrew versions 2.5.9 and above.

The autoremove functionality was added in this commit on 5 Nov 2020.

ANSWER 2

Score 57

Found on linuxbrew issue

brew bundle dump
brew bundle --force cleanup

brew now supports Brewfiles. brew bundle dump generates a Brewfile with all the packages installed by user. Dependent packages are not listed here

example:

brew "python3"
brew "curl"
brew "tmux"
brew "neovim"

This file can be used to install the same software automatically. But also for doing a cleanup of unused packages. Edit the file then keep only the packages you need. Then run brew bundle --force cleanup. It will remove everything not listed or depending on the packages in the file.

WARNING: Also not listed casks will be removed