Filtering installed software by a set of groups about homebrew-bundle

[jacobbednarz]

i don't mind the idea and something we've floated previously in #175 and #517 (for OS specific groups). i would use this feature however, my workaround at the moment is appending my global Brewfile with instance_eval(File.read("/Users/jacob/.Brewfile.work")) which also allows me to keep things separated.

on the flip side, this makes versions and the lockfile harder to reason with as the contents will change depending on the group selection and no longer be 1:1 with with everything mentioned in the Brewfile.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I think I could probably emulate something like this using environment variables

This was what I was going to recommend.

I will "never say never" on groups but I don't see how they'll fit in with the full ecosystem today.

I enjoy having identical shell, tooling, etc. configuration between my work an home Mac, but sometimes my work requires that I install rather large or burdensome dependencies I'd like to avoid at home. Similarly, there's no need to install e.g. Lightroom on my work computer most of the time.

Another option for this (when I had the same at work) is the e.g. HOMEBREW_BUNDLE_BREW_SKIP variables set on one machine only (https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#bundle-subcommand).