On 18 Nov 2017, at 20:38, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > Yeah, really, nope. Ports are able to make decisions based on the install > user; some ports do different things when installing as root vs. installing > as a normal user.
I've been reading some of Homebrew's documentation before giving it a try and found out that it doesn't use root. How would you compare both approaches? https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ.html#why-does-homebrew-say-sudo-is-bad