I already addressed this in the second email I sent to the list on this topic. You can't sim-link to a file that is already present, you'll need to rename the original file first, then you can sim-link the newer version to the makeinfo filename. I've never used homebrew, but if it doesn't run as root, you won't be able to use it to overwrite a program in the /usr/bin folder, because you don't own the file, and root has higher privileges than you do, so perhaps if you precede the homebrew command with a sudo command, it might work for you.
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