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Installs Homebrew to /usr/local so you don't need sudo to `brew install`

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sinisterchipmunk commented Feb 15, 2012

Pull request: http://gist.github.com/1836995
Changed shebang to #!/usr/bin/env ruby so other rubies can be used (in case user has removed the default system ruby)

nhooey commented Feb 21, 2012

Ideally instead of saying "use su", this script should say "su to a non-root admin user". It got me confused when it said to just use su, and then said "don't run this as root".

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mxcl commented Feb 21, 2012

I'll remove the su, bit. Since apparently people don't realise what it means. Nobody understands unix anymore.

nhooey commented Feb 21, 2012

I understand Unix and it confused me.

The script says:

If you still want to use this script set your user to be an Administrator in System Preferences or `su'.

It should be more specific and say to su as an administrator user. I figured that root was effectively an administrator, because I'm new to MacOS. The language just isn't precise.