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# Homebrew 0.9
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The main new feature in Homebrew-0.9 is `brew tap`.
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brew-tap allows you to import formula from other repositories into your Homebrew instance. For example:
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brew tap josegonzalez/php
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Will install the recently deleted PHP formula that @josegonzalez maintains because he's the expert and we're not.
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We are planning to remove some of the longtail and move it into the new Homebrew organization so that we can keep the formula in mxcl/master in better shape.
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`brew search` has been adapted to search over the common taps. So movement of formula will not cause you to not find the formula you are looking for.
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Tap has many possibilities; for example, does your organization have its own Homebrew fork with its own custom formula? Well now you can just have a tap and stop having to merge mxcl/master with your own fork all the time.
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This also means we will have a dedicated dupes tap so that people can stop asking us to put dupes in mxcl/master. Perhaps you want a formula for every ruby gem? Now you can make a tap!
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Formula in mxcl/master cannot be overwritten, so to install a "conflict" you can use an extended syntax, eg:
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brew install homebrew/dupes/gcc42
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To untap, use `brew untap`.
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Formula can depend on formula from other taps:
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depends_on "homebrew/dupes/tcl-tk"
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Though this will not install the tap, it will prompt the user to do that first.
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