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Before I took ownership of /usr/local, "brew link" caused a "/usr/local/..." not writeable.

Is there any particular security reason why the program didn't say something like "The operating system won't let me write to this folder, but I think I can fix that problem for you. I'll just need your administrator password."

Neil Smithline
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  • Probably better suited for https://unix.stackexchange.com/ –  Mar 11 '16 at 21:22
  • Not a definite answer, but I'd think brew purposefully abdicates that responsibility; by its core design it never touches privileged areas and AFAIK in fact refuses to operate under a privileged account. It does not want to be in a situation where it *could* cause damage due to bugs/exploits. – deceze Mar 12 '16 at 16:22

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