On MacOS, what's the implication of deleting /usr/local/var
(when it contains the following 3 folders - homebrew
, run
and mysql
)?
Note, you can assume I don't care about anything in the mysql
folder because I want to delete it. (but I want to know what would happen to the other two folders (I can imagine the homebrew
folder contain homebrew related stuff but I don't know what the run
folder does at all).
Also, I used ls
to list the content of /usr/local/var
folder before I delete it so that means I may have missed some content that can be displayed by ls -la
, so if there are any other files that I may have missed, can you tell me as well?
Debugging info:
$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.6.9
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 7dac; last commit 2018-06-20)
System Version: macOS 10.13.5 (17F77)
Kernel Version: Darwin 17.6.0
I didn't do any backup and didn't use Time Machine.