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IIRC the main reason here is that brew path is hardcoded during the build process of packages, which means that you wouldn't be able to use bottles.

I didn't check, but there is a chance that path is also hardcoded in (some) formulae, so even building from the source might not help here.

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You could run the build process with chroot or inside Docker, so that the hardcoded paths actually resolve to a designated subdirectory.

Incidentally, that’s what is usually done in Nixpkgs in similar situations when there’s no better alternative, see buildFHSEnv et al.

In many cases the build output also has hardcoded paths unfortunately

so doing `brew install` inside a container with the proper volumes it’s not sufficient to fix the issue. Everything would have to run from within the container as well.

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