Pkg installs Homebrew to a Linux box as a dependency

General Usage
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@jheinen noticed in Fastest way to draw on Gtk.jl 'canvas' with plots produced from Plots.jl? - #12 by jheinen that Homebrew is installed automatically as a dependency even if running in Linux OS.

I tested this with a fresh installation (removed .julia):

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.2.0
Commit c6da87ff4b (2019-08-20 00:03 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, sandybridge)
(v1.2) pkg> add GR Cairo Gtk
   Cloning default registries into `~/.julia`
   Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
     Added registry `General` to `~/.julia/registries/General`
 Resolving package versions...
 Installed HTTPClient ──────── v0.2.1
 Installed URIParser ───────── v0.4.0
 Installed Libz ────────────── v1.0.0
 Installed BinaryProvider ──── v0.5.6
 Installed Gtk ─────────────── v0.17.0
 Installed Colors ──────────── v0.9.6
 Installed Reexport ────────── v0.2.0
 Installed WinRPM ──────────── v0.4.2
 Installed Homebrew ────────── v0.7.1
 Installed Compat ──────────── v2.1.0
 Installed FixedPointNumbers ─ v0.6.1
 Installed Parsers ─────────── v0.3.7
 Installed Graphics ────────── v0.4.0
 Installed JSON ────────────── v0.21.0
 Installed NaNMath ─────────── v0.3.2
 Installed Cairo ───────────── v0.6.0
 Installed LibCURL ─────────── v0.5.2
 Installed BufferedStreams ─── v1.0.0
 Installed BinDeps ─────────── v0.8.10
 Installed ColorTypes ──────── v0.8.0
 Installed LibExpat ────────── v0.5.0
 Installed GR ──────────────── v0.41.0
  Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.2/Project.toml`
  [159f3aea] + Cairo v0.6.0
  [28b8d3ca] + GR v0.41.0
  [4c0ca9eb] + Gtk v0.17.0
  Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.2/Manifest.toml`
  [9e28174c] + BinDeps v0.8.10
  [b99e7846] + BinaryProvider v0.5.6
  [e1450e63] + BufferedStreams v1.0.0
  [159f3aea] + Cairo v0.6.0
  [3da002f7] + ColorTypes v0.8.0
  [5ae59095] + Colors v0.9.6
  [34da2185] + Compat v2.1.0
  [53c48c17] + FixedPointNumbers v0.6.1
  [28b8d3ca] + GR v0.41.0
  [a2bd30eb] + Graphics v0.4.0
  [4c0ca9eb] + Gtk v0.17.0
  [0862f596] + HTTPClient v0.2.1
  [d9be37ee] + Homebrew v0.7.1
  [682c06a0] + JSON v0.21.0
  [b27032c2] + LibCURL v0.5.2
  [522f3ed2] + LibExpat v0.5.0
  [2ec943e9] + Libz v1.0.0
  [77ba4419] + NaNMath v0.3.2
  [69de0a69] + Parsers v0.3.7
  [189a3867] + Reexport v0.2.0
  [30578b45] + URIParser v0.4.0
  [c17dfb99] + WinRPM v0.4.2
  [2a0f44e3] + Base64 
  [ade2ca70] + Dates 
  [8bb1440f] + DelimitedFiles 
  [8ba89e20] + Distributed 
  [b77e0a4c] + InteractiveUtils 
  [76f85450] + LibGit2 
  [8f399da3] + Libdl 
  [37e2e46d] + LinearAlgebra 
  [56ddb016] + Logging 
  [d6f4376e] + Markdown 
  [a63ad114] + Mmap 
  [44cfe95a] + Pkg 
  [de0858da] + Printf 
  [3fa0cd96] + REPL 
  [9a3f8284] + Random 
  [ea8e919c] + SHA 
  [9e88b42a] + Serialization 
  [1a1011a3] + SharedArrays 
  [6462fe0b] + Sockets 
  [2f01184e] + SparseArrays 
  [10745b16] + Statistics 
  [8dfed614] + Test 
  [cf7118a7] + UUIDs 
  [4ec0a83e] + Unicode 
  Building GR ──────→ `~/.julia/packages/GR/ZI5OE/deps/build.log`
  Building LibCURL ─→ `~/.julia/packages/LibCURL/lWJxD/deps/build.log`
  Building WinRPM ──→ `~/.julia/packages/WinRPM/Y9QdZ/deps/build.log`
  Building Homebrew → `~/.julia/packages/Homebrew/s09IX/deps/build.log`
  Building Cairo ───→ `~/.julia/packages/Cairo/p68X8/deps/build.log`
  Building Gtk ─────→ `~/.julia/packages/Gtk/aP55V/deps/build.log`

Is this intentional (why?) or a bug?

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Pkg3 isn’t aware of the platform you run and installs all known dependencies, like here https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/165

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