El comando que desea es cleanup
: ejecutar brew cleanup
eliminará los paquetes que están en el disco, pero que ya no están instalados.
> brew help cleanup
brew cleanup [--prune=days] [--dry-run] [-s] [formulae]:
For all installed or specific formulae, remove any older versions from the
cellar. In addition, old downloads from the Homebrew download-cache are deleted.
If --prune=days is specified, remove all cache files older than days.
If --dry-run or -n is passed, show what would be removed, but do not
actually remove anything.
If -s is passed, scrubs the cache, removing downloads for even the latest
versions of formulae. Note downloads for any installed formulae will still not be
deleted. If you want to delete those too: rm -rf $(brew --cache)
Por ejemplo:
> brew cleanup
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/awscli/1.10.19... (2,955 files, 22.3M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.8.2... (1,418 files, 30.5M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.9.3-7... (1,459 files, 17.9M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/libgcrypt/1.7.0... (17 files, 1.5M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/libgpg-error/1.21... (19 files, 419.4K)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/libksba/1.3.3... (13 files, 343K)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/mercurial/3.7.3... (386 files, 4.7M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/node/6.0.0... (3,655 files, 38.8M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2g... (1,678 files, 12.0M)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.1795... (1,687 files, 22.6M)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-2.8.2.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (11.2M)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/imagemagick-6.9.3-7.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (7M)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libgcrypt-1.7.0.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (565.4K)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libgpg-error-1.21.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (130.8K)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libksba-1.3.3.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (126.6K)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/node-6.0.0.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (10.9M)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/openssl-1.0.2g.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz... (3.6M)
Removing: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/vim-7.4.1795.tar.gz... (12.0M)
==> This operation has freed approximately 196.4M of disk space.
Tengo un régimen de lunes por la mañana de:
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
Eso me pone al día con Homebrew, luego todos mis brebajes instalados y luego libera espacio en el disco al eliminar los antiguos que ya no están referenciados. Para las cervezas que necesito mantener en una versión específica, uso brew pin
para mantenerlas allí, así que aún puedo ejecutar esta cadena simple de tres comandos para actualizar todo lo demás en torno a los paquetes anclados.