An older Homebrew removal notebook

Removing installed packages and cleaning cached archives are different operations. The original notebook began with a broad package removal:

brew remove --force $(brew list) --ignore-dependencies

That command expands the installed-package list and ignores dependencies. It is a destructive operation, not a routine health check.

The cache cleanup was:

brew cleanup

The earlier Cask removal syntax was:

brew cask remove --force $(brew cask list)

These lines preserve the old commands, including a version-specific Cask form. They do not constitute a current recovery procedure, and none was executed for this revision.

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