Since I enabled HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, downloads have improved for me to...

firecall · 2026-03-24T23:38:14 1774395494

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 · 2026-03-25T00:57:08 1774400228

Thanks for that. And here I was somehow hanging around on 4.5.3.

brailsafe · 2026-03-24T19:33:40 1774380820

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.

naikrovek · 2026-03-24T23:51:30 1774396290

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