I see no problem in this. We need writing permissions to /usr/local to finish our migration (as we always did). Once you finish the migration we (hopefully) never write directly to /usr/local again.
Re:Homebrew 1.0.0
by princetman on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:19AM
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It was a compliment, as mentioned in other comments. I love the fact that it just doesn't error out, it offers a fix right there. It also humbly offers to surrender the rights to directories it no longer need. Coming from recent Dropbox helper agent debacle, I truly appreciate the philosophy behind this and applaud the team.
I think princetman was being sincere that he loved the experience. homebrew went to the trouble of telling us that we could restore the default permissions to /usr/local, that's nice.
I'm fairly certain you misinterpreted that. He was complimenting the smooth process.
Sorry, I probably failed to notice the "Thanks Homebrew team. <3" part first time round.
Re:Homebrew 1.0.0
by moridin007 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:20AM
(#12547864)
so smooth. much wow
Error: /usr/local is not writable. You should change the ownership and permissions of /usr/local back to your user account: sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
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==> Migrating HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY (please wait)...
==> Migrated HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to /usr/local/Homebrew!
Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local. If you wish you can return /usr/local to its default ownership with: sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local"
You got to love the user experience of this! Thanks Homebrew team. <3