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brew analytics off And in general it does everything as user not su for a few years now. (Actually a good idea if using it before M1 to brew dump, remove inst

• Maursault 4y ago
  > brew analytics off The issue is that by default on install Homebrew uses Google Analytics. > And in general it does everything as user not su for a few years now. Homebrew always did everything as the admin user and not as root, and that was always the problem. It mungs permissions of /usr/local; all files, not just directories. And it's not so much of a package manager as it is a needless frontend for git. MacPorts, alternatively, respects default file system ownership, is a full-featured package management system, and like pkgsrc, is based on the FreeBSD ports system. And when uninstalled, MacPorts doesn't leave a mess. With these 3 commands, it leaves no trace (with the exception of the /opt directory in the event it is used for something else): sudo port -vfp uninstall --follow-dependencies installed sudo port -vfp uninstall all sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Library/Tcl/macports* If the day ever comes, good luck uninstalling Homebrew.[1][2] [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/48792 https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/48792 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32895800/cant-reinstall-or-uninstall-homebrew-after-blowing-away-contents-of-usr-local https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32895800/cant-reinstall-...