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There is something written on the linked page that has always bothered me: "Using sudo all the time is annoying, but far worse — it conditions you to type in yo
by KC8ZKF 17y ago
There is something written on the linked page that has always bothered me: "Using sudo all the time is annoying, but far worse — it conditions you to type in your root password without thinking about it." That quote implies a misunderstanding of sudo, and has made me less confident about installing Homebrew. Unix permissions and installation procedures should be well understood by a developer of package management software.
It's probably good software, for all that. He probably understands Unix better than I do, but it still bothers me.
- tvon 17y agoThe author (of Homebrew) is well intentioned but I've gotten a few hints that he doesn't really come from a *nix background (the /usr/local thing, the aggressive Gentoo-esque "optimization", etc).