Brew doctor - “warning: unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include”?

Question

When I run brew doctor, the following error is thrown

Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
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Answer 1

It may be safe to leave those files in place unless you encounter build or link problems with other Homebrew formulas; brew doctor output is advisory, not normative.

If you don't think you have a reason to build against the versions of curl or node in /usr/local, you can remove those header files; you can always reinstall the newest version later with Homebrew.