<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3156" class="yiv9954970732gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><div>> Thank you. /usr/local always seems iffy to me, but this is after years in linux <br></div><div>> making sure to make packages to install any software via package manager. The <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3155">> thing I liked about macport's /opt, which is actually something of a standard for <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3157">> non-pacakge-managed software in linux, is that it's relatively encapsulated <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3158">> away from the rest of the directory structure. But as long as it does a reasonable <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3159">> job of uninstalling everything in a package it should be fine.</div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_2992" class="yahoo_quoted"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_2991" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_2990" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3161" class="y_msg_container"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3160"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3162">Does Homebrew require XCode? If so then speed of package installs is <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3163" dir="ltr">insignificant by comparison.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3164" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3166" dir="ltr">If not then I'll give it a try-- that would reduce the total time to build from 1 day to <br></div><div dir="ltr">something less obnoxious.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3173" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476106034672_3194" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>