On 05/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> oh... I didn't know that. I just took a look in my /usr/local, and found a > whole bunch of stuff for texlive, and then various programs that I remember > installing. > > is there a recommended place for me to put these programs? > > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:12 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> I don't install things there, but there are things in there (mostly from >>> Mac OS) that I'd like to keep and use. >> >> I might be wrong but I understand OS X itself does not put anything in >> /usr/local. Anything you might have there has probably come from other third >> party applications you have installed, not the system itsdelf. This is not smoke-and-mirrors. I cannot see anything that would affect, and none of my macports are affected by the tex stuff in /usr/local If you are not a 'developer' and the concept of 'include files' libararies' 'executables' is alien sure adopt the 'never use /usr/local' paradigsm else just be sensible James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
