Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-09 Thread Chris Jones
Create a homebrew port of awesome. That way, not only will you get what you wanted, but everyone will benefit from the fruits of your labor. ... or take the more enlightened route and switch to using exclusively MacPorts ;) Is there anything Homebrew has than MP doesn't ?

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Anderson
:) Not much, if any. But the reverse is constantly true. LaTeX is the one that got me to convert people in the CS department. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson e...@emer.net On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.ukwrote: Create a homebrew port of

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-09 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
Please enlighten, convert people to what and why? Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) On Aug 9, 2013, at 6:32 AM, Mark Anderson wrote: :) Not much, if any. But the reverse is constantly true. LaTeX is the one that got me to convert people in the CS department. —Mark

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-09 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
He converted people to MacPorts because we have what Homebrew does not (that, and, you know, being a package manager). Please enlighten, convert people to what and why? :) Not much, if any. But the reverse is constantly true. LaTeX is the one that got me to convert people in the CS

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-08 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 04 09:44:06, rai...@krugs.de 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). Create a homebrew port of awesome. That way, not only will you get what you wanted, but everyone will benefit from the

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-10 Thread Guido Soranzio
On Jul 5, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: $PATH is only one of the possible problems. Does homebrew prevent promiscuous configure scripts from scanning /sw, /opt/local, etc. for libraries? If GNU's Autotools were really functional in practice, we wouldn't need

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-05 Thread Guido Soranzio
On Jul 4, 2013, at 02:44, Rainer M Krug wrote: This would then mean, that two package managers can co-exist, or only that macports can work reliably with homebrew installed, but not the other way round? With the latest Homebrew 0.9.3 it’s quite the contrary. Thanks to the new “Superenv”,

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Guido Soranzio guido.soran...@gmail.comwrote: On Jul 4, 2013, at 02:44, Rainer M Krug wrote: This would then mean, that two package managers can co-exist, or only that macports can work reliably with homebrew installed, but not the other way round? With

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-05 Thread Eric A. Borisch
With the latest Homebrew 0.9.3 it’s quite the contrary. Thanks to the new “Superenv”, the user’s PATH is ignored completely: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-0.9.3. Pardon me if I'm slightly amused by what they've done. Homebrew (in contrast to MP) is all about using what's

homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
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

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
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,

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com 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

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:44:06AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: 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? Unfortunately it is

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Clemens Lang c...@macports.org writes: Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:44:06AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: 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?

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: 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

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: 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

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 4, 2013, at 02:44, Rainer M Krug wrote: 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

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Eneko Gotzon Ares
Great job! Thanks! On 4 Jul 2013, at 11:07, Clemens Lang wrote: I am working on a mechanism built into port to prevent problems with homebrew or fink co-installed on the same machine -- Eneko Gotzon Ares ___ macports-users mailing list