In that case you might be glad to hear that in v1.0.0:
> Homebrew’s default repository installation location changed to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep your /usr/local cleaner
Personally, I really like Homebrew and have never had problems (c.f. MacPorts which gave me big problems a few years ago), but I don't use /usr/local for much else, so that's probably why.
In that case you might be glad to hear that in v1.0.0:
> Homebrew’s default repository installation location changed to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep your /usr/local cleaner
Personally, I really like Homebrew and have never had problems (c.f. MacPorts which gave me big problems a few years ago), but I don't use /usr/local for much else, so that's probably why.