Auto disable hints if already exists the environment variable about brew HOT 8 CLOSED

If I read the code right, there is no way to silence just this warning without disabling the behavior. So that would be a feature request.

There is: set HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS, as the message says.

Passing on this, sorry.

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Can you provide an example of the specific hints you're seeing that you don't want to?

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Hi @MikeMcQuaid

Sorry, but after checking it I have seen that in the brew.env file I misspelled the variable and after correcting it it is already hidden.

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I have HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS set explicitly to 86400 (in my ~/.zshrc).

❯ echo $HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS
86400

I was hoping that this would hide the specific hint about auto updates, while still providing me with other env hints that I might find useful. However, I still get the hint: (EDIT: nope, user error, see below)

==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).

I also got this hint:

==> Running `brew cleanup coreutils`...
Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).

In this case, there seems to be no explicit configuration to set get the install cleanups, but that could be used to silence the hints.

❯ brew --version       
Homebrew 4.2.15

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Hmm, but I do see now here that the HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS hint should be hidden if explicitly set... so this might be an user error on my side as well, not sure how but looking at it :)

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Oh yes, the env var was not exported 🤦 – sorry about that. But how about the HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP case?

If I read the code right, there is no way to silence just this warning without disabling the behavior. So that would be a feature request.

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No, that also disables other hints? But I of course realize that this is a rather specific ask and I perfectly understand that you would pass on it. :)

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No, that also disables other hints?

Yes. We don't have hint-by-hint disabling, sorry.

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