Re:Homebrew 3.0
by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:44AM
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The problem is that the way they do it breaks the UNIX model. /usr/local is common to all users, but Homebrew gives it the current user's permissions. This consequently creates weirdness if you actually use multiple user accounts.
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Exactly why I prefixed my comment with "this is one of the FEW features I do love". The exact technical approach Hombrew ends up taking to a lot of problems always seems not quite right whenever I've dug a little deeper.
Fair point, but I bet the number of Macs in the wild shared by multiple people who would want to run Homebrew are vanishingly small.
Re:Homebrew 3.0
by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:42PM
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Sure, but it's a native feature built into the Mac platform. If software is going to prevent that from working properly, then that should be communicated very clearly.
Is this an issue in practice in more than a rounding error number of Macs? I'd bet lots of money that the vast majority of developers (that is, people likely to be installing Homebrew in the first place) are using effectively single-user systems.