Comment by ryandrake

Thank you for this helpful information. It might be worth a try. I initially moved to brew because it was "new", because I liked the command line interface, and because it seemed more "segregated" from the rest of the OS's files (/usr/local/Cellar and so on). But it's increasingly aggressive messages reminding me I am a second-class (or third-class) citizen due to the age of my OS is really off-putting.