Homebrew Is Awesome
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Homebrew Is Awesome
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#3Does homebrew still want you to chown system folders?
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#4Does homebrew still want you to chown system folders?
No, the default Homebrew install location moved to /opt/homebrew on new Apple Silicon Macs.
(I don’t know why Intel Macs still use /usr/local.) In any case, it’s possible to choose a custom installation location, even on Intel Macs if you prefer.
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation
Further discussion on the decision:
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#5As someone who has been working on Homebrew for 14 years: it’s nice to see something positive about Homebrew on the front-page for a change. Homebrew is far from perfect or the best package manager but it is still surprising to me how much the Hacker News crowd likes to hate on something so ubiquitous with no meaningful corporate backing run by volunteers mostly in their spare time.
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#6Does homebrew still want you to chown system folders?
No, the default Homebrew install location moved to /opt/homebrew on new Apple Silicon Macs. (I don’t know why Intel Macs still use /usr/local.) In any case, it’s possible to choose a custom installation location, even on Intel Macs if you prefer. https://docs.brew.sh/Installation Further discussion on the decision: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177
/usr/local/bin still wants chowned on Intel Macs but we’re looking at ways of being more liberal there too.
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#7As someone who has been working on Homebrew for 14 years: it’s nice to see something positive about Homebrew on the front-page for a change. Homebrew is far from perfect or the best package manager but it is still surprising to me how much the Hacker News crowd likes to hate on something so ubiquitous with no meaningful corporate backing run by volunteers mostly in their spare time.
Don't let the haters get you down. I appreciate homebrew every day, and I know there are thousands more out there like me. It makes using a Mac so much more fun! I appreciate this because I sometimes have to use Windows, where package installation is... lacking.
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#8As someone who has been working on Homebrew for 14 years: it’s nice to see something positive about Homebrew on the front-page for a change. Homebrew is far from perfect or the best package manager but it is still surprising to me how much the Hacker News crowd likes to hate on something so ubiquitous with no meaningful corporate backing run by volunteers mostly in their spare time.
Homebrew is among the top-3 reasons I enjoy developing on Mac. Thanks a lot for your work!
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, the default Homebrew install location moved to /opt/homebrew on new Apple Silicon Macs. (I don’t know why Intel Macs still use /usr/local.) In any case, it’s possible to choose a custom installation location, even on Intel Macs if you prefer. https://docs.brew.sh/Installation Further discussion on the decision: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177
/usr/local/bin still wants chowned on Intel Macs but we’re looking at ways of being more liberal there too.
Nice. What about the default telemetry?
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#10As someone who has been working on Homebrew for 14 years: it’s nice to see something positive about Homebrew on the front-page for a change. Homebrew is far from perfect or the best package manager but it is still surprising to me how much the Hacker News crowd likes to hate on something so ubiquitous with no meaningful corporate backing run by volunteers mostly in their spare time.
I don't care Homebrew exists, except when I am forced to use it in some corporate laptops.
I am perfectly fine with macOS's UNIX™, out of the box experience.