Homebrew Bundle installs fonts that are already installed

[leafac]

Create a Brewfile:

tap "caskroom/fonts"
cask "font-charter"

Run Homebrew Bundle twice:

$ brew bundle
Using caskroom/fonts
Installing font-charter
Homebrew Bundle complete! 2 Brewfile dependencies now installed.
$ brew bundle
Using caskroom/fonts
Installing font-charter
Homebrew Bundle complete! 2 Brewfile dependencies now installed.

Note how the second time it doesn’t say Using font-charter, but Installing font-charter, which means it’s installing the cask again.

Nothing breaks by installing a cask again, but if you have many fonts in your Brewfile, it adds up and gets quite slow.

[MikeMcQuaid]

What does brew bundle dump output?

[leafac]

Interesting.

Running brew bundle dump I get the following Brewfile:

tap "caskroom/cask"
tap "caskroom/fonts"
tap "homebrew/bundle"
tap "homebrew/cask"
tap "homebrew/core"
brew "bash"
brew "caddy"
brew "cloc"
brew "coreutils"
brew "exim"
brew "ffmpeg"
brew "figlet"
brew "git"
brew "graphviz"
brew "imagemagick"
brew "nmap"
brew "node"
brew "pstree"
brew "rbenv"
brew "rlwrap"
brew "tree"
brew "watch"
brew "wget"
brew "yarn"
brew "youtube-dl"
cask "authy"
cask "backblaze"
cask "cyberduck"
cask "day-o"
cask "detexify"
cask "firefox"
cask "google-chrome"
cask "grandperspective"
cask "inkscape"
cask "intellij-idea"
cask "java"
cask "mactex"
cask "mattermost"
cask "postman"
cask "racket"
cask "screenflow"
cask "shiftit"
cask "skype"
cask "the-unarchiver"
cask "tor-browser"
cask "transmission"
cask "visual-studio-code"
cask "vlc"
cask "xquartz"
cask "zotero"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-abril-fatface"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-alegreya"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-alegreya-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-andada"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-andada-sc"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-andika"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-anonymous-pro"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-bitstream-vera"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-bree-serif"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-bungee"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-cabin"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-cabin-condensed"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-cabin-sketch"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-cardo"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-charis-sil"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-charter"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-cooper-hewitt"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-crimson-text"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-dejavu-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-eb-garamond"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-et-book"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-euphoria-script"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-everson-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-exo"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-exo2"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-fantasque-sans-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-fira-code"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-fira-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-fira-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-fontawesome"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-gentium-basic"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-gentium-book-basic"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-gentium-plus"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-gnu-unifont"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-gravitas-one"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-hack"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-hasklig"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-hermit"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-ia-writer-duospace"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-ibm-plex"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-inconsolata"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-input"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-inter"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-iosevka"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-iosevka-slab"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-julius-sans-one"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-junicode"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-lato"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-libre-baskerville"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-linux-biolinum"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-linux-libertine"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-lora"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-merriweather"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-merriweather-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-meslo-lg"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-metropolis"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-monoid"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-monoisome"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-mononoki"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-montserrat"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-noto-emoji"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-noto-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-noto-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-noto-serif"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-nunito"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-old-standard-tt"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-open-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-open-sans-condensed"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-oswald"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-overpass"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-oxygen"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-oxygen-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-playfair-display"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-playfair-display-sc"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-pt-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-pt-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-pt-serif"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-public-sans"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-rajdhani"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-raleway"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-roboto"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-roboto-condensed"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-roboto-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-roboto-slab"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-source-code-pro"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-source-sans-pro"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-source-serif-pro"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-space-mono"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-tangerine"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-ubuntu"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-vollkorn"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-work-sans"

So I thought I’d try to chang my Brewfile to read like:

tap "caskroom/fonts"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-charter"

That solves the problem:

$ brew bundle
Using caskroom/fonts
Using caskroom/fonts/font-charter
Homebrew Bundle complete! 2 Brewfile dependencies now installed.

Note how it says Using instead of Installing.

Should I be using the caskroom/fonts/... form, or is this really an issue with Homebrew Bundle?

[MikeMcQuaid]

Should I be using the caskroom/fonts/... form

Yup!

[leafac]

Great. How about I send a pull request adding

tap "caskroom/fonts"
cask "caskroom/fonts/font-charter"

to the example Brewfile in the README?

[MikeMcQuaid]

@leafac Sounds perfect!