Please, everyone, stop forcing HomeBrew as a dependency.
HomeBrew screws with your systems file permissions and installs directly into the standard system directories.
MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/) is at least a good, and it installs into the /opt tree, staying out of the way of anything Apple or Darwin wants to do when updating or patching your system.
Don't like MacPorts? There's always Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/), which installs into /sw and looks like Debian (i.e. apt-get).
i've been using homebrew since, like, lion and never had major issues. it also always worked across major and minor mac os upgrades. the things it does in /usr/local don't interfere with mac os.
in contrast, i somehow couldn't manage to efficiently use macports and fink.
HomeBrew screws with your systems file permissions and installs directly into the standard system directories.
MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/) is at least a good, and it installs into the /opt tree, staying out of the way of anything Apple or Darwin wants to do when updating or patching your system.
Don't like MacPorts? There's always Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/), which installs into /sw and looks like Debian (i.e. apt-get).
HomeBrew seems like the worst of the three. :-(