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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ If Homebrew was updated on Aug 10-11th 2016 and `brew update` always says `Alrea
 - [ ] Ran `brew update` and retried your prior step?
 - [ ] Ran `brew doctor`, fixed as many issues as possible and retried your prior step?
 - [ ] If you're seeing permission errors tried running `sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)`?
+- [ ] Confirmed this is problem with Homebrew/brew and not specific formulae? If it's a formulae-specific problem please file this issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new
 
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