Re:The Day AppGet Died
by saagarjha on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:16AM
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Installing packages for your system as a non-root user is fairly broken and Homebrew jumps through a number of questionable hoops to make this work.
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Like chown-ing /usr/local to what is supposed to be a non privileged user, reducing this security of everything in there. It’s like people don’t realize there’s a reason port (and apt and dnf and pretty much every package manager) requires “sudo” to install software. Homebrew has always felt poorly thought out to me and every time I try to use it again I come across some broken package that works fine in port.