[stephenr]

> which as always been frowned upon

Only in the Homebrew backwards-day world is having globally installed software not owned by root "frowned upon".

[matthewmacleod]

Hmmm. The UNIX education that's been hammered into me since childhood has said "If you can do it as not-root, don't do it as root".

[stephenr]

What part of that UNIX education would cover putting user-owned binaries into /usr/local ?

[dasil003]

Well at least it's in /usr/local/Homebrew now...