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Re:El Capitan and Homebrew by _b8r0 on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:34AM (#10311401)
As I can't edit the comment, I wasn't referring to the name /usr/local as much as the permissions. It'd make more sense to store systemwide hierarchy in /opt/homebrew/* and user-specific hierarchy in ~/.homebrew/* instead.
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Re:El Capitan and Homebrew by jrochkind1 on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:00PM (#10314674)
Many unix tools are written to build looking for dependencies on default paths including /usr/local.

Putting packages installed in a custom /opt/homebrew location would make it harder to install and use software that often assumes a /usr/local possibility, but not an /opt/homebrew it's never heard of.

It is in fact a pretty common place to put non-distro installed software. And was not (and still is not?) used by OSX out of the box. It made a lot of sense for homebrew to use it.

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