On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:01, Shreevatsa R wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 17, 2009, at 01:12, David T. wrote:
Has anyone got a clear set of steps and guidelines for me to
follow to try using macports without messing up fink?
Rename fink's /sw directory to something else. That should ensure
it does
not interfere with MacPorts.
You should only use software installed via one package manager at
a time --
either Fink, or MacPorts, not both.
Er, I don't think this is true. You don't have to do *anything* to
ensure Fink and MacPorts don't intefere with each other. They are both
designed to not interfere with the rest of the system, so if they do
interfere with each other, it's a bug in one of them.
In my experience (and that of others) it works perfectly to use both
Fink and MacPorts simultaneously; installing packages from whichever
of the two happens to have a working version. (But do care about what
you do to your environment variables like $PATH: Fink's
/sw/bin/init.sh is a bit heavy-handed.)
Of course I'm just a user and don't know very much of the internals of
either, so maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
There are software packages out there, for which we have ports in
MacPorts, that will, in an attempt to find the dependent libraries
they need, always look in /opt/local and /sw to find them. So if you
have the same library installed with both Fink and MacPorts, it's
possible a MacPorts port will link with the library from Fink, or the
other way around. To prevent that, we would have to know which
software packages do this and patch them in MacPorts to not do that.
Since we do not know which software packages do this, the safe course
of action is to explain that it is not supported to use Fink and
MacPorts at the same time. "Not supported" means you can still do it,
but we will not necessarily help you with problems you encounter as a
result.
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