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Discuss CPAN, RubyGems and EasyInstall

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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html
Next, uninstall MacPorts and Fink (or just rename their root folders). Many
build scripts blindly look in /opt/local etc. and end up linking to that stuff
anyway!
anyway! If you just want to trial Homebrew then you'll get away with not moving MacPorts or Fink, it's just not recommended.
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#HowDoIRemoveOrUninstallMacPorts
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php#removing
@ -37,16 +37,31 @@ It is self-contained and ready to go. Just copy this directory somewhere.
Things work really well if you put it in /usr/local (especially if you are a
developer).
I also recommend you make /usr/local user-writable. I wouldn't worry about it
not being chroot. We don't install anything base enough for it to be a concern
(unlike MacPorts or Fink).
You can stick this directory in your home directory if you like. In that case
a typical (POSIX) choice would be: /User/mxcl/.local
If you don't install to /usr/local (but seriously it's great!) then you'll
need to edit your ~/.profile file to add Homebrew's bin directory to the PATH.
Don't sudo
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Well clearly you can sudo if you like. Homebrew is all about you doing it your
way. But we recommend that you don't sudo. Apple designed the OS X heirarchy
so that you can do things like:
$ cpan -i MP3::Info
Without having to sudo (although you still need an admin user account).
Clearly they intended for you to install new stuff that they didn't provide
without becoming root.
Sudo is dangerous, it can break your system. All the tools Homebrew installs
are not system critical. Sudo just makes Homebrew more difficult and more
dangerous for you to play with.
If you don't sudo, you know for sure that /usr and /System haven't been
tampered with. Thus you'll sleep better at night.
Usage
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@ -124,6 +139,16 @@ If you want to adapt the system and make it work with binaries; fork away.
The bandwidth is on you though :P
CPAN, EasyInstall, RubyGems
===========================
Homebrew doesn't reinvent the wheel. These tools are already designed to make
it easy to install Perl, Ruby and Python tools and libraries. So we insist
that you use them. However we don't think you should have to sudo, or install
to /usr, so we suggest you adapt the tools to install into Homebrew's prefix:
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki
How do I Notify Someone that a Package is out of Date?
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Chances are that if the package hasn't been updated for a few days, then the