On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:44 PM, William H. Magill <mag...@mac.com> wrote: > Are there any inherent conflicts between Mac Ports and OSX Server -- aside > from the obvious ones of having two versions of, say, Apache installed. > > I'm installing/updating a new Mac mini from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion > and have re-installed Mac Ports and installed OSX Server. >
I'm not a Macports expert but I am somewhat skilled in FreeBSD. AFAIK the philosophy is the same: you have a base system and then apps clearly separated. Macports does not affect the base system much (if not at all) because everything is clearly separated in /opt/local except maybe for some start-up items but I'm pretty sure not even that. In other words, theoretically if you wipe /opt/local nothing else should be affected. In systems that do this clean separation you will always have duplicates of things like the MTA, WebServer and popular languages like Perl or Python, etc. It is up to the sysadmin to determine which one he will use. E.g. in FreeBSD I _always_ use the ports versions and in fact, I don't touch the base system except for maybe a custom kernel. Everything else I use in separate jails for each service. I do the same thing on Mac, that is, I always use the ports version and never touch the base system. Best, -- Alejandro Imass > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users