Homebrew sometimes pretends you can install it somewhere else. Like most things with homebrew, if you try, you will quickly realise this is not regularly tested

Homebrew sometimes pretends you can install it somewhere else. Like most things with homebrew, if you try, you will quickly realise this is not regularly tested. > That's one hell of an odor. That’s very much fine. They do that to be able to share the cache between system. There is nothing magical about the root folder by the way. It’s just Apple being annoying.