Sorry. Failed to reply to the list as well.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Randall Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:16 AM Subject: Re: using native python 2.5 as opposed to installing 2.4 To: Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > < insert old unix geek whining about macos and unsearchable mailman > mailing list archives > > > trying to install rdiff-backup. it, and py-xattr want to install python > 2.4 port when there is a perfectly good python 2.5 native in leopard. i > can not find the equivalent of freebsd's /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to > whack the port's build parms. and doc reading does not give me a lot of > clue. I can speak to why we don't use the system python, but not to rdiff-backup: The system python would have to be modified to see the MacPorts-installed python packages or MacPorts would have to stick those packages outside of its managed directory. MacPorts uses a single managed directory[1] to avoid collisions with other software that would break the ability to manage the ports. To avoid modifying the system python, MacPorts installs its own python as well. [1] /opt/local by default. There are some exceptions /Applications/MacPorts so that apps just work and are visible in the Applications directory and a couple of others related to bootstrapping in MacPorts to begin with. > clue bat please. > > randy > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > -- Randall Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy." -- Randall Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy." _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
