From 66e4570c40b80cc79662f45a8a9be81665cfaa5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bradley Grzesiak and Nick Karpenske
 <dev+listrophy+randland@bendyworks.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:03:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Warn that chown -R /usr/local may break mysql

---
 README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d6acdd2e880..0fb4fc0d798b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ Let this be the last sudo you do for quite some time:
 
     sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
 
+_NOTE_: Performing the above command *may* break some programs that are already
+installed in /usr/local. One specific example is mysql. Fixing mysql may be
+as simple as:
+
+    sudo chown -R mysql:mysql `brew --prefix`/mysql
+
 But! I already have a bunch of junk in /usr/local
 -------------------------------------------------
 Homebrew can co-exist with any software already installed in its prefix.