Re: Switching to Homebrew as recommended Mac install?

From: Jay Levitt <jay(dot)levitt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Switching to Homebrew as recommended Mac install?
Date: 2012-04-04 20:19:08
Message-ID: 4F7CACBC.9030809@gmail.com
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Dave Page wrote:
> Exactly - which is why I was objecting to recommending a distribution
> of PostgreSQL that came in a packaging system that we were told
> changed /usr/local to be world writeable to avoid the use/annoyance of
> the standard security measures on the platform.

Wellll... that's not exactly what happened:

I originally wrote:
> POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS/PREREQUISITES
>
> 1. homebrew installs everything under /usr/local and makes that user-writeable.

So. :)

Jay

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