How can i get more info about a brew formula before installing?

Question

I know i can do something like

## brew info FORMULA_NAME brew info wgetpaste 

Output

wgetpaste: stable 2.20 http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ Not installed https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/wgetpaste.rb 

Then i can follow the url to get some info about the formula before installing. Do we have any way to get this info in command line using brew?

Answer 1

Nope. Homebrew intentionally lets the web sites serve as documentation of the packages, instead of maintaining a separate copy of it.

You can do a brew home <formula> to fire up a browser from the command line, or brew edit <formula> to examine the formula's installation instructions themselves in an editor.