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I would've been alright if they actually installed stuff in a user dir under the user's home folder, but it's insane to have a system-wide /opt/homebrew owned b
by mort96 2y ago
I would've been alright if they actually installed stuff in a user dir under the user's home folder, but it's insane to have a system-wide /opt/homebrew owned by whatever user happened to run the installer. Very icky.
- selkin 2y agoIt is possible to install Homebrew itself and the software it packages under your home folder[0], though that configuration is not officially supported. This is how I install Homebrew when I have to, and so far the only issue I ran into is that binary packages are often tagged as installable only to Homebrew's default folder, so Homebrew had to built the to-be-installed software from source instead, resulting in it taking longer and the computer fans spinning louder. [0] https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#untar-anywhere-unsupported https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#untar-anywhere-unsupported