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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by nine_k on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:58PM (#27627006)
How do you handle brew? It makes all the /usr/local/bin stuff belong to the regular user which installed it. Other users had trouble working with brew-installed stuff, last time I tried a few years ago.
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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by vanpythonista on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:16AM (#27627102)
You can install brew in your home directory using the Untar Anywhere approach. I’m particular sceptical of how brew handles permissions, so I always install it to ~/homebrew. One thing to note, if you use this approach Homebrew will not use its precompiled binaries and build everything from source.

https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#untar-anywhere

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by Phurist on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:38AM (#27628125)
Use Nix instead.
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