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It's been argued that the recommended way it works is a security issue:

https://applehelpwriter.com/2018/03/21/how-homebrew-invites-...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/261326/is-it-safe-to-chown-u...

On Apple Silicon it now installs to /opt/homebrew, a change they’ve been wanting to do for a while.

Does /opt/homebrew still end up in root’s PATH, I wonder? That has the same issue that /usr/local has I think. Letting users mess with root’s environment basically means there is no real distinction between root and non-root.

No, it doesn’t.

It’s not really insecure. See: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/187502

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