Since I enabled HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, downloads have improved for me to the point where download speed is no longer an issue.

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firecall a day ago | parent | next [-]

If your version is 5.0.0 or newer, concurrency is already active by default.

https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/

	▲	pugio a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for that. And here I was somehow hanging around on 4.5.3.

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brailsafe 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good to know! I was doing this with a hacky one-liner but wasn't aware of this flag. I think the sequential build/install process is the agonizing bit though.

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naikrovek a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah I don’t know how people are saying it’s slow. If you have 5000 packages installed maybe?