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This is software, they can just ask instead!


Which might break some scripts that expect home brew not to require user input. The right way to do it would be to ask if a terminal was available but in reality, scripts are not careful enough to tell applications that they are in fact headless. I've seen some scripts break under that assumption.


Did it print a warning when upgrading on terminal?

They could have a prompt with a countdown, you opt in it you don't say 'no' after a minute.




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