/usr/local/bin/apachectl: line 95: lynx: command not found

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What were you trying to do (and why)?

I was just trying to call apachectl status (or with sudo) and I get the error

/usr/local/bin/apachectl: line 95: lynx: command not found

The following command does not return anything, so this dependency, which seems to be needed, was not installed when I installed httpd, so I think this is a bug

brew list | grep lynx

My MacOS (Monterey) already comes with an apache server, but I didn't want to use this one, so I installed it with brew too. Now, it seems that apachectl is automatically referring to the brew's httpd, because of the order of the exported paths (I suppose). Anyway, I don't know if this has anything to do with the issue.

I saw this discussion https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/2960, but I still don't get why after 2 years this has not yet been solved and what the official solution is and why. If I do brew reinstall $(brew deps httpd) httpd , it does not solve the issue, because, indeed, lynx will not appear in brew deps httpd

Doing brew install lynx does seem to solve this specific issue, but then shouldn't the httpd formula depend on lynx and so automatically install it, if it uses it?

What happened (include all command output)?

/usr/local/bin/apachectl: line 95: lynx: command not found

What did you expect to happen?

No error

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

1. brew install httpd php
2. apachectl status