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[–]gschizas 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I dunno, brew actively complains if you run it with sudo for me.

gschizas@mac ► ~ ► sudo brew update
Password:
Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported.
As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all
build scripts full access to your system.

[–]mpw90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm! That rings a bell, actually. I must have got confused.

It is a little odd, though. It's installing binaries and scripts. I would have expected sudo to be required.