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It makes /usr/local owned by the current user rather than root. Not much in the way of voodoo. ;) It's basically a replacement for MacPorts.
by wfarr 16y ago
It makes /usr/local owned by the current user rather than root. Not much in the way of voodoo. ;)
It's basically a replacement for MacPorts.
- snprbob86 16y agoSee this section of the hierarchical filesystem guidelines for unix-like OSes: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY and in particular: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHI... Isn't root supposed to own that?
- wfarr 16y agoThey're guidelines. In the case of OS X laptops, they're almost uniformly used as single-user machines. This just takes the hassle of having to sudo to do it. There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation