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		scott_karana on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities Homebrew actually uses /usr/local/Cellar for all its installations, and then makes symlinks in the relevant /usr/local/{bin,sbin} directories. Not sure if that's what you meant.

nmc on May 15, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the clarification. Still, a quick Google search seems to indicate that this does not solve all related problems (symlinking, overriding, etc.).

quarterto on May 15, 2014 | [–]

Brew does refuse to link anything that would collide, and it knows to not link e.g. gettext, as a lot of Mac programs rely on BSD gettext

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