diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/optparse.rb b/Library/Homebrew/optparse.rb
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/optparse.rb
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+# This file is put here to prevent loading of real optparse.rb,
+# which killed Homebrew. Details of issue can be found here:
+# http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues#issue/97