On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:19 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that I think of it: one thing that *would* be really nice is an official
> way to install things that are not in MacPorts somewhere under /opt/local ,
> with a similar support for (de)activated versions and uninstalling. That
> could be as "simple" as providing wrapper to configure, cmake, make etc. that
> basically do what they also do for those commands during port
> {build,destroot,install} (but with PREFIX set to ${prefix}/contrib or
> something of the sort).
um, that's called 'writing a portfile' (except for the ${prefix}/contrib
sillyness).
(and it's pretty easy for well-behaved software).
There's even instructions for having your own ports tree (in case you are doing
this with non-public software or you just don't feel like sharing):
https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html
If you want to install other software, putting it outside of ${prefix} is a
good idea (/opt/packagename is a fairly common practice).
--
Daniel J. Luke
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