Using sudo to install brew apps?

[David Gomez]

Hi, I was just reading the bash scripts and I noticed you use brew to install several apps while you keep alive the sudo session.

Is this ok?

Since I remember brew recommends do not use sudo to install apps, how you handle this?

[Donne Martin]

@davegomez the brew apps themselves are not installed using sudo. in brew.sh there are only two lines that use sudo;

# Install GNU core utilities (those that come with OS X are outdated).
...
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gsha256sum /usr/local/bin/sha256sum

# We installed the new shell, now we have to activate it
echo "Adding the newly installed shell to the list of allowed shells"
# Prompts for password
sudo bash -c 'echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /etc/shells'

The keep alive is used so that you can chain the various dotfiles together for automation with .dots without having to frequently re-enter credentials.

[David Gomez]

Awesome, thanks for the answer.