Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am using homebrew at the moment, but there are certain packges, which >> are not on homebrew (e.g. awesome and kde apps). >> >> Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in >> parallel. >> >> I know this *can* cause problems, but is it likely to cause problems? >> What do I have to be aware about? Any experiences? > > If you need those packages only occasionally, you could create a > shortcut to switch the PATH settings. Often the most problems can be > prevented by including just MacPorts or just Homebrew into PATH and > leaving the other one out.
I thought along the same lines - but I am thinking of trying to use awesome windows manager (macports only) and at the same time I am using offlineimap and notmuch which are installed via homebrew - so this wont work in this case. > > The most problematic part is probably if you have Homebrew in PATH > before MacPorts and you try to install a MacPorts package from source > (or vice versa). > > Apart from that my personal opinion is "just try". Some software is > written in such a way that it explicitly looks for libraries in "/sw" > or "/opt/local" to be more "user-friendly" and account for the fact > that users might have dependencies in Fink, Macports, ... It could > happen that a package that you try to install with Homebrew would > accidentally pick up its dependency from MacPorts. All these are bugs > that can/should be reported and fixed, it's just that you never know > in advance and developers rarely test such configurations. Thanks - I will see what I do - I might switch completely to macports? I will see. Rainer > > Mojca -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
