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> which as always been frowned upon Only in the Homebrew backwards-day world is having globally installed software not owned by root "frowned upon".

• matthewmacleod 10y ago
  Hmmm. The UNIX education that's been hammered into me since childhood has said "If you can do it as not-root, don't do it as root".
  • stephenr 10y ago
    What part of that UNIX education would cover putting user-owned binaries into /usr/local ?
    • dasil003 10y ago
      Well at least it's in /usr/local/Homebrew now...