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Why does brew shellenv put linuxbrew in $PATH before /usr/bin/ ? #2560

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Why put linuxbrew's bin before /usr/bin in the $PATH, when it breaks apt packages, whereas apps installed with brew install work either way?

Because brew does not expect you to use a second package manager at the same time (and neither does apt). As for the second part of this, there is no guaranteeing that brew apps work either way. We try our best to make packages work with our dependencies but we don't develop them so we can't be sure it'll work.

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