homebrew moving to /opt/homebrew

[Ken Cunningham]

On 2020-11-18 7:12 a.m., Ken Cunningham wrote:
> As of Apple silicon, apparently.
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857 
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-727561968>
>
> Being in /usr/local was always said to be homebrew's biggest, no-sudo 
> advantage...
>
> So those of you who said previously that they would eventually figure 
> out they would have to move to /opt look to have been right on the 
> button...
>
> Ken
>

Yes -- funny thing is how now everyone on that Issue is saying what a 
great idea that is,  that they found /usr/local was not a good place for 
homebrew as all kinds of other software was writing into there, etc, 
etc, etc


:>


Now they are scrambling to figure out how to make everything like cmake, 
etc, work with non-default prefixes.


Ah -- the fun just begins.


Ken

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