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>homebrew (grudgingly?) supports being installed in a non-standard folder. They just don't suggest it to you up front. It's tucked away in the detailed installation page under "Alternative Installs"

Oh good, another user of an open source project expecting the devs to support their special setup, while (presumably) not contributing anything back.

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Your comment would be relevant if the guy written something to the devs. He has a sacred right to rant on his own page as he likes.

But his rant could’ve easily been a pull request in the Brew repo. Would’ve taken just as much (maybe even less) than what he did to come up with his own solution. Let’s say he added a —sandbox option to the home brew install script that did all this automatically. Now it benefits everyone using homebrew.

The whole tone of the article is pretty hostile and childish, which is a toxic attitude in my opinion. Better to be cooperative and help out the community.

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