Re: Switching to Homebrew as recommended Mac install?

Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>

From: Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-04-04T20:19:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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