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Re:El Capitan and Homebrew by OJFord on Thursday October 01, 2015 @12:08PM (#10312169)
This sounds like the best suggestion/solution in this thread. But if you run brew from admin, why can't admin take ownership , and run brew without sudo?
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Re:El Capitan and Homebrew by snowwrestler on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:04PM (#10313175)
So that Homebrew always requires my password to install an app, just like native OS X installs. It also preserves the default permissions. And it's not that hard to sudo.
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Re:El Capitan and Homebrew by OJFord on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:47PM (#10315000) 

    > Homebrew always requires my password to install an app
But isn't that _less_ safe?

Instead of trusting Homebrew with /usr/local, you have to trust every formula with `sudo`? Or does it only use sudo for part of it, a `mv` or something?

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