How to uninstall Homebrew Cask

Question

I installed Homebrew Cask for kicks as described at http://caskroom.io/. It boils down to the following command:

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask $ brew tap caskroom/versions 

Homebrew Cask installed and everything was fine. Then I uninstalled Homebrew Cask like so:

$ brew untap caskroom/versions $ brew uninstall brew-cask 

Here are the current taps:

$ brew tap homebrew/versions 

Yet I see stuff from Cask when searching for items that wouldn't be part of Homebrew itself (like Graphical programs, aText, Fantastical etc.):

$ brew search atext Caskroom/cask/atext 

Though it doesn't install (as expected):

$ brew install atext  Error: No available formula for atext Searching formulae... Searching taps... Caskroom/cask/atext 

So the question is why does brew search Caskroom/cask and how do I get rid of it (I don't want Homebrew telling me it has aText, for example, when it can't install it)?

I am running Mac OS X Yosemite.

Answer 1

For the current version of Brew:

$ brew uninstall --cask yed 

For older versions of Brew:

$ brew cask uninstall yed 

the result:

==> Removing App symlink: '/Users/user/Applications/yEd.app'