On Sun, 22 Dec 2019, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I use /usr/local all the time for stuff I either wrote myself
That's fine.
Thanks :-)
or grabbed from somewhere else, without any problems; I reserve
/opt/local for MacPorts stuff.
If the stuff you grabbed from somewhere else is something like a library
or a program that a MacPorts port might use, you can run into problems
if the MacPorts port inadvertently uses the thing you put in /usr/local
rather than a copy that MacPorts installed.
Yeah; I'm very touchy about what I install under say /usr/local/lib etc;
if there's a chance that it'll conflict with MacPorts then I don't (or I
fix my error)..
[...]
That's fine, but there are very good reasons why we tell you not to put
things in /usr/local. If you do, it is at your own risk, and we don't
want to spend time helping troubleshoot any issues that arise as a
result.
After nearly 50 years of programming, I'm pretty good at fixing my own
screw-ups :-) For the record, I started in school in the late 60s and
have programmed ever since (I'm now 67) with no career change.
-- Dave
