<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Dec 23, 2019, at 21:06, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">As far as I know, yes it does, by default, which is why, if you install them to their default locations, you should only use one package manager and uninstall the other to prevent conflicts.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I supposed that in an ideal world where a single package manager had all available packages and where broken packages were fixed quickly, that might work.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Unfortunately, this is not the case.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I have been using ffmpeg from MacPorts daily for several years. It broke with the release of Catalina. A ticket has been filed (59750). But, I can’t wait for it to get fixed. I need it every day. The only alternative I could find was avconv, which MacPorts doesn’t have. I don’t know how long it will be before ffmpeg works again.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>However, I do have some experience. I used to use sunwait. It broke. I filed a ticket (51700). It took two years before sunwait was fixed. In the meantime, I had to find an alternative.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m not trying to be critical here. I understand the situation. This is all done by volunteers who have way more smarts and ability than I have. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>The reality is that people are going to use more than one package manager if the need arises. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>