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I was going to say that recent installs have switched to /opt/Homebrew, but while digging up supporting evidence I noticed that they bizarrely only do that for

I was going to say that recent installs have switched to /opt/Homebrew, but while digging up supporting evidence I noticed that they bizarrely only do that for arm64 installs: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install.sh#L130 https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install.sh#L...

duskwuff 4y ago
Changing the install prefix for a project like Homebrew is hard, because directory names frequently get embedded in executables and configuration files. The ARM migration was a convenient time to make the switchover, because everything had to be rebuilt anyway.