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`brew bundle` installs nothing new and exits 0

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Symptom. brew bundle install prints only Using <formula> lines and succeeds. Packages just added to the Brewfile never appear, and no error names them.

Root cause. A cask-only package declared as brew "..." instead of cask "...". Homebrew resolves the whole dependency graph before installing anything, so one unsatisfiable entry aborts the entire run — every other new package is collateral, which is what makes this read as a no-op rather than a failure. Hit Aug 2026 with brew "quarto": homebrew-core has no quarto formula at all, only a cask.

Confirm.

Terminal window
brew bundle check --file=packages/Brewfile --verbose
# → Formula quarto needs to be installed or updated.
brew info --formula quarto
# → Error: No available formula ... Found a cask named "quarto" instead.

Fix. Move it into the if OS.mac? block as cask "quarto". Casks are macOS-only, so a cask-only tool has no Homebrew route on Linux — install it another way there rather than leaving a brew line that breaks every bundle run. Check a new entry with brew info --formula <name> before committing.