[bugbuddy]

Meanwhile, homebrew install instructions:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/inst...)"

Then it prompts user for admin previledges. Also, it does not support installing as a local non-admin user.

[rvz]

I would agree if it was the only way to install Homebrew, but it is not.

You can install it via a .pkg here: [0]

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases/tag/5.0.13

[brigandish]

Does it still do the "you can't install via sudo, that's a security risk" while not allowing a non-admin install? I laugh and I cry.

Why does anyone trust that project to understand security?

[marxisttemp]

MacPorts, of course, features an actual .pkg installer, as well as doing pretty much everything else better, and having more packages, and existing first.

[radicality]

I use brew but willing to try out Macports. How come the package install instructions seem to require sudo under macports? Does that not carry more risk during the install ?

[marxisttemp]

Because it requires access to /opt/local. It drops down to the macports user for all the actual fetching and management.