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Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 by yes_or_gnome on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:13AM (#12892143)
Not really. Signatures should be SHA256 already, you shouldn't be running as root (which as always been frowned upon).
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Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 by stephenr on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:26AM (#12892260)
> which as always been frowned upon

Only in the Homebrew backwards-day world is having globally installed software not owned by root "frowned upon".

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Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 by matthewmacleod on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:38AM (#12892356)
Hmmm. The UNIX education that's been hammered into me since childhood has said "If you can do it as not-root, don't do it as root".
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Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 by stephenr on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:45AM (#12892434)
What part of that UNIX education would cover putting user-owned binaries into /usr/local ?
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Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 by dasil003 on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:53AM (#12892517)
Well at least it's in /usr/local/Homebrew now...
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