Not true: the following is from mxcl's github README (<a href="http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/</a>) -<p><i>But… don't sudo!<p>Homebrew can be used with or without sudo, but, OS X was designed to minimise sudo use, you only need it occasionally. For example, as long as your user is in the admin group, this just works:<p>cpan -i MP3::Info<p>Using sudo all the time is annoying, but far worse — it conditions you to type in your root password without thinking about it. Homebrew compliments OS X so you are unlikely to install anything that really needs to be chown:root. Let this be your last sudo for some time:<p>sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local<p>NOTE: If you already installed, eg. MySQL into /usr/local then the recursive chown may break it. Fixing MySQL should be as simple as:<p>sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql</i><p>Also 'inane blogspam' seems a bit much, no?