diff --git a/docs/FAQ.md b/docs/FAQ.md index abaa48eba8..15b08e60b0 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ.md +++ b/docs/FAQ.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ When automatic `brew cleanup` is disabled, if you uninstall a formula, it will o In this case, to remove a formula entirely, you may run `brew uninstall --force `. Be careful as this is a destructive operation. -## Why does `brew upgrade ` also upgrade a bunch of other stuff? +## Why does `brew upgrade ` or `brew install ` also upgrade a bunch of other stuff? Homebrew doesn't support arbitrary mixing and matching of formula versions, so everything a formula depends on, and everything that depends on it in turn, needs to be upgraded to the latest version as that's the only combination of formulae we test. As a consequence any given `upgrade` or `install` command can upgrade many other (seemingly unrelated) formulae, if something important like `python` or `openssl` also needed an upgrade. ## Where does stuff get downloaded?