Yes. And nope, I'm not referring to 'sudo brew install'. The main homebrew page says, 'run this ruby script'. The ruby script is available at: https://raw.git

Yes. And nope, I'm not referring to 'sudo brew install'. The main homebrew page says, 'run this ruby script'. The ruby script is available at: https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go The script includes a sudo command. To be fair, I hadn't read the script in detail when I wrote my post, just far enough to see there was a definition of a sudo function. On review, it looks like they either call it to chmod/chgrp HOMEBREW_PREFIX (sometimes), or run sudo to create the directories.