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That makes sense. The weird part to me is that Homebrew would limit their approach and eliminate an entire class of use cases to accommodate programs that work
by apitman 2y ago
That makes sense. The weird part to me is that Homebrew would limit their approach and eliminate an entire class of use cases to accommodate programs that work this way. There has to be more to it.
- nightpool 2y agoI don't think that's accurate—homebrew specifically says that it only uses the .linuxbrew directory when a formula contains a hardcoded path (which it scans for), and only if you choose not to install it from source. So, based on the responses from the maintainers, for the .linuxbrew directory to be used, you have to satisfy 2 conditions: 1. you have to be installing one of the ~10% of formula that isn't trivially relocatable. 2. you have to be using a precompiled binary (which it seems like homebrew is smart enough to not do if condition #1 fails and you're not using sudo)