On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:52, Andrea D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that point stands as long as other programs don't overlap, > /usr/local is the default prefix for autotools and you can end having > a messed up installation.
For new manual installations just use --prefix=/usr/local/packagename/version and you can use brew link/unlink automagically. And that's FREAKING cool with my dev workflow. For old installations... OK, it might be a pain in the a** if you want to make brew versions coexist with versions you installed manually, but it would be anyway if those bins/libs were in different places as you would have to play with paths all the time anyway. > Where do symlinks shine when compared to hardlinks? Notice that is an > actual question, I'm not aware of advantages or disadvantages of both > of them when it comes to a management system. First thing I can think of: ls -l to track which version you're using! -- Pierre Carrier _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
