Too much dependencies on mac brew?

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hi there, i’m installing graphviz on mac by
brew install graphviz
however , the dependencies are too much as below, the installation not finished in 3 hours.
Any idea?

==> Fetching dependencies for graphviz: libpng, pkg-config, freetype, fontconfig, cmake, nasm, jpeg-turbo, brotli, giflib, highway, imath, xz, lz4, zstd, libtiff, little-cms2, openexr, webp, docbook, mpdecimal, ca-certificates, openssl@3, readline, sqlite, python@3.11, icu4c, boost, source-highlight, asciidoc, docbook-xsl, bison, gettext, flex, doxygen, docutils, python@3.12, python-setuptools, gdbm, python@3.10, pygments, python-certifi, python-flit-core, python-packaging, sphinx-doc, jpeg-xl, ninja, meson, libsodium, lua, ncurses, berkeley-db, perl, libyaml, m4, autoconf, libssh2, libgit2@1.6, six, z3, pcre2, swig, llvm@16, rust, ruby, vim, libvmaf, yasm, aom, libavif, gd, glib, apr, apr-util, utf8proc, scons, subversion, jasper, netpbm, automake, libtool, gts, util-macros, xorgproto, libxau, libxdmcp, xcb-proto, libxcb, xtrans, libx11, libxext, libxrender, lzo, pixman, cairo, gobject-introspection, gdk-pixbuf, fribidi, graphite2, harfbuzz, pango and librsvg

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Thanks. This does sound a bit much. I wonder if we could make a graphviz graph of the dependency graph.

I think you should talk to the homebrew package owners, I don’t think they are on this forum…

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thanks, I will have a try :grinning:

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I guess these must be transitive depdendencies. If you check the formula, there are exactly 10 dependencies: autoconf, automake, bison, pkg-config, gd, gts, libpng, librsvg, libtool, and pango.

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Thanks all, I have successfully install graphviz from mac port.

The brew problem caused by my os version 10.15 out of support by brew…

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Interesting. If you don’t want to upgrade your OS, you might have more success with Macports that also packages Graphviz, https://ports.macports.org/port/graphviz/