brew-leaves
List top-level installed packages that are not dependencies
TLDR
List top-level packages (not dependencies)
$ brew leaves
List only manually installed leaves$ brew leaves -r
List only dependency-installed leaves$ brew leaves -p
Show dependency tree of leaves$ brew deps --tree $(brew leaves)
SYNOPSIS
brew leaves [options]
DESCRIPTION
brew leaves lists installed formulae that are not dependencies of any other installed formula or cask. These are your "top-level" packages that you explicitly installed.This command shows the leaves of Homebrew's dependency graph - packages that can be safely uninstalled without breaking other packages.
PARAMETERS
-r, --installed-on-request
Only list leaves that were manually installed by the user-p, --installed-as-dependency
Only list leaves that were installed as dependencies of another formula
CAVEATS
Not the same as "manually installed" - shows packages with no dependents. A manually installed package might have dependents and won't appear. Use -r flag for truly manual installations.
SEE ALSO
brew(1), brew-list(1), brew-autoremove(1)
