On Apr 4, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >>> No it didn't magically ended up there. You installed it there. >>> And you were told before you installed it there that it will >>> end up there. >> >> I didn't say that, I said *magically*. >> Of course I know there was no magic involved. Phew... > > Jesus, I am not implying you think it was magic. > I am just pointing out that you installed it there yourself, > and if it broke things, that's not a failure of the packaging system. > >> Of course MacPorts WILL install libpng in /opt/local. >> But when the port that requires libpng is then built the compiler may chose >> the libpng that got installed in /usr/local. > > Yes. And if /usr/local was where macports installs its stuff, > then this would mean that the compiler picked up what macports > installed, by default.
When MacPorts is prefixed in /opt/local and some process installs files to /usr/local it is easy to move /usr/local out of the way to solve MacPorts installation issues. If MacPorts is prefixed in /usr/local this would be impossible. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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