---
title: "remove brew packages"
seo_description: "A snippet explaining how to remove top level brew packages"
date: 2022-01-18T10:31:48+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
- brew
---

Trying to clean up my laptop a bit today by removing some unused brew packages.

Normally I would use `brew list` but this also list packages that are dependicies. 
Here is a way to list the top level packages:


```shell
$ brew leaves
asciinema
aspell
autoconf
awscli
bat
bumpversion
...

$ brew uninstall neomutt newsboat travisshears/tap/deploy_tool weechat
...
```

[source](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/101090/list-of-all-packages-installed-using-homebrew)