If they're frivolous, install them in $HOME/bin, and you don't need root. I'm not suggesting make as an alternative to a package manager, I'm saying that nowhe

If they're frivolous, install them in $HOME/bin, and you don't need root. I'm not suggesting make as an alternative to a package manager, I'm saying that nowhere else is it considered OK to install global programs without requiring admin/root permissions. I'm emphasising "global" software because homebrew installs to /usr/local/ by default, which is a machine global directory. The issue with permissions is about security, and like most security problems, being bad/terrible has no correlation on userbase. How many people use {android,Windows,Wordpress,...} despite a terrible security record.