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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The poster you're replying to was not referring to 3rd party software in user space.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ok, yeah, I can see that there would be times this could matter but like 90% of the time this wouldn't have mattered for my use case afaik. I didn't realize you couldn't backup the old copy in /bin and symlink to the brew one from there. In fact I thought I did do that long ago.