On Dec 7, 2012, at 21:50, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 12/08/2012 03:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Dec 7, 2012, at 20:59, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> >>> I thought maybe somebody might find this interesting: >>> >>> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html> >> >> Which part should we be looking at? In what way does "Fedora do MacPorts"? I >> didn't see "MacPorts" mentioned on that page. > > No, it was more to do with the concept behind Software Collections. > Disregarding the fact it installs into /opt, it looks a similar > principle; a set of supplementary ports installed elsewhere in the > system (in /opt) that do not clash with system stuff. > > It was all rather light hearted on my part. My apologies if that was not > made obvious in my post.
Ah I see. Well I'm not surprised by this, since that's the purpose of the /opt directory in a UNIX system: to hold OPTional software. That's why MacPorts uses a prefix under /opt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
