William Siegrist wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> You know, I was never comfortable with this default location. It
>> perpetuates the misperception that MacPorts installs into /opt when
>> in fact it installs into /opt/local. But making the default location
>> for non-root activities ~/.macports/opt/local doesn't make sense
>> either, does it? Sigh. :-/
>>
>>
>
> Why not just ~/.macports? That would seem to match other software,
> like ssh and subversion.
To support multiple installs of MacPorts on the same machine the path
has to be unique. The best to come up with is ~/.macports/${prefix} as
${prefix} is unique to each installation.
Rainer
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