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-rw-r--r--Library/Homebrew/global.rb4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index f248ce36e..54b169d75 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ ARGV.extend(HomebrewArgvExtension)
HOMEBREW_VERSION = '0.8'
HOMEBREW_WWW = 'http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/'
-HOMEBREW_CACHE = if Process.uid == 0
+HOMEBREW_CACHE = if ENV['HOMEBREW_CACHE']
+ Pathname.new(ENV['HOMEBREW_CACHE'])
+elsif Process.uid == 0
# technically this is not the correct place, this cache is for *all users*
# so in that case, maybe we should always use it, root or not?
Pathname.new("/Library/Caches/Homebrew")