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Brew doctor isn't always correct and /usr/local is not a panacea
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Check out the following resources to get an idea of what I mean when I say that:

Brew doctor isn't always correct and /usr/local is not a panacea

Some of the recommendations in brew doctor are either outdated and thus wrong or were never correct to begin with. I've got a couple PRs out to correct a couple of those.

Point is, you may want to consider installing to ~/.homebrew or some directory under your own $HOME.

Any program that hard-codes /usr/local is wrong and the reality of it is that there aren't that many relevant programs out there now that still do this.

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