Homebrew
Add HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY="auto-updates" and "latest"
Verification
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Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature
Many users, myself included, prefer to always run brew upgrade --greedy-auto-updates in order to upgrade all of our formulas and casks. Adding support for --greedy, --greedy-latest, and --greedy-auto-updates to the HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS environment variable enables users to run brew upgrade more easily with their preferred cask upgrade options.
What is the motivation for the feature?
Pull request #15160 added support for the HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY environment variable, but deferred adding support for the --greedy-latest and --greedy-auto-updates options. I believe adding support for these additional options via HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS provides a potentially simpler and more streamlined solution.
How will the feature be relevant to at least 90% of Homebrew users?
As discussed in #15097, there are many users using the --greedy-auto-updates option in particular.
What alternatives to the feature have been considered?
Alternatively new environment variables could be added, e.g. HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY_LATEST and HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY_AUTO_UPDATES.
Given we already have HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY, I think it would be better to support HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY=auto-updates or HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY_AUTO_UPDATES as you already mentioned.
Also, I think we should deprecate HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS at some point and split it into separate variables for each supported option.
I'm happy to update my pull request with any preferred approach. Do you have a preference between adding HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY_AUTO_UPDATES or modifying HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY? If the latter, would it be backwards compatible to convert the value to a string and have any value != "auto-updates" imply the --greedy option?
Let's modify HOMEBREW_UPGRADE_GREEDY to allow auto-updates. This way also only one of the options can be set at a time.
Closing this out as we don't need an issue and PR from same author at same time and to keep conversation in one place. Thanks for the PR @jck112!
