# brew-cleanup-installed: uninstall all non-whitelisted Homebrew formulae. # # Useful for maintainers/testers who regularly install lots of formulae # they don't actually use. # # Populate ~/.brew-cleanup-installed with the formulae you want to keep # installed. All others will be uninstalled when brew-cleanup-installed is run. module Homebrew def cleanup_installed cleanup_file = Pathname.new "#{ENV["HOME"]}/.brew-cleanup-installed" return unless cleanup_file.exist? kept_formulae = cleanup_file.read.lines.map(&:strip) current_formulae = `brew list`.lines.map(&:strip) uninstall_formulae = current_formulae - kept_formulae return if uninstall_formulae.empty? safe_system "brew", "uninstall", *uninstall_formulae end end