Of course, you realize that you can configure fink to install things wherever you want, right? Just run the fink configuration and specify where you want various directories. I've stuck with the defaults though. :)
-Alex Kee Hinckley wrote: > At 6:06 PM +0100 6/5/02, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> On 5/6/02 at 09:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stepanek) wrote: >> >>> Well I think it hosed my MySql install, so I'd be >>> careful. >>> concurrently I installed a couple of fink binaries and >>> the 10.1.5 upgrade. After this mysqld would not run. I >>> had to re-install it. Given than the fink binaries >>> were just perm modules, I suspect the problem was the >>> system update. >> >> >> I've got mysql installed in /usr/local/ (not via fink), so I'm >> thinking after reading what you've said, what with the cpan stuff as >> well, I may well leave it till Jagwire. > > > I would generally recommend that if you install something that the > system already has, you install it in a place where the system did > not. /usr/local is typical, fink uses /usr/sw which annoys me, but > whatever. The main point is that your worst case will be losing the > startup files that *start* your software--but you won't lose your > software.
