This nested if will mess up the logic in the following elsif keg.linked? and what follows, i.e. you'll have to keep the condition in one piece. Note you can use multiple arguments to express “starts with any of?”, so this might be short enough to stay on a single line:

if HOMEBREW_PREFIX.to_s == "/usr/local" && keg.name.start_with?("openssl", "libressl")

(My personal belief is that the prefix check could be completely dropped so that users get a more uniform behavior independently of where they chose to install Homebrew, though I do understand that there isn't any issue with non-/usr/local prefixes. Just a thought—I'm happy either way.)

(My personal belief is that the prefix check could be completely dropped so that users get a more uniform behavior independently of where they chose to install Homebrew, though I do understand that there isn't any issue with non-/usr/local prefixes. Just a thought—I'm happy either way.)

I'd prefer we kept exempting non-/usr/local prefixes since there's not actually a problem there. I'd argue openssl shouldn't even really be keg_only outside of /usr/local, but there we go.

👍 on the rest of Martin's comment though.

I'd prefer we kept exempting non-/usr/local prefixes since there's not actually a problem there. I'd argue openssl shouldn't even really be keg_only outside of /usr/local, but there we go.

Maybe to provide a rationale for my thinking: Since those users have to supply custom paths to their compiler and linker invocations anyway, they could as well supply the PREFIX/opt/openssl/{include,lib} paths. The upside would be that their scripts/etc. will continue to work even if they decide to switch from a non-/usr/local to a /usr/local installation or share their work with other Homebrew users.

But as I said, it's just a thought. I'm fine with limiting this to /usr/local installations.

Part of me wants to get Travis building in /opt/brew as well so we know how much breaks in that directory. I'd generally like us to stop vilifying non-/usr/local installations & think it'd be reasonably easy to support, as well as opening up the option of moving in future if Apple clamps down even more or we decide it's worthwhile.

But that's not strictly related to this discussion, so I'll leave that be.

I'd generally like us to stop vilifying non-/usr/local installations & think it'd be reasonably easy to support, as well as opening up the option of moving in future if Apple clamps down even more or we decide it's worthwhile.

My main issue is bottles. They massively improve the user experience and reduce support burden for us.

We're making progress on that front though.

2356 formulae currently have some form of cellar :any, another 451 are bottle :unneeded, another 5 are bottle :disable. So that leaves... 783 non-portable bottles. Rough numbers, obviously, but we're making solid progress here.

We'll get a lot more wrapped up once we work out how to relocate NLS stuff as well.

If we got everything cellar :any my objection goes away. There's things like git that'll require upstream changes, though. The best middle ground I've heard is leaving the cellar as-is but just moving the default prefix/repo checkout to /usr/local/homebrew, /opt/homebrew or whatever using @chdiza's method.