Timeline for Is the "Cellar" folder only used for Homebrew?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 8:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | YCode | @myhd Thanks for Dan Benjamin article link! Just what I need to understand the differences btw usr/bin and usr/local. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | Andrew Janke | To clarify: The "Cellar" directory is a location that Homebrew made up for its own use. (The name fits with Homebrew's "beer" theme: the "cellar" is where you store your "kegs" of "homebrew".) No other software uses it. So if you don't need Homebrew and the programs you installed using Homebrew, you can delete Cellar. @myhd - when homebrew says "to their own directory", that "own directory" is located under "Cellar". | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 21:49 | comment | added | echristopherson |
Still, it is very common for ./configure with no --prefix= argument to just assume you want to install in /usr/local; and the Homebrew FAQ does suggest installing stuff you've compiled yourself there, and then using brew link on it.
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| Sep 27, 2012 at 1:22 | comment | added | mmmmmm | @myhd - that article is not that useful - FHS is Linux and not Unix, /usr/local is for stuff you compiled yourslef but many unicies also have /opt (as also does Macports) and other directories that are not affected by system installs | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 21:01 | comment | added | myhd |
@Yoga If you look closely, the FAQ says "it will only remove Homebrew and the stuff Homebrew installed". The homebrew homepage says "Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local." Check this useful article about using usr/local by Dan Benjamin of 5by5.
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| Sep 20, 2012 at 4:03 | comment | added | Yoga | From one of the comments, I was hesitated...The FAQ says that this gist uninstalls ONLY the homebrew stuff. The FAQ says that Cellar is the place to install non-homebrew stuff. This gist removes Cellar. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 17:50 | history | answered | Lri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |