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 No. Even though MacPorts is installed elsewhere, software installed in `/usr/local` can still interfere with MacPorts.
 Some software (especially the GNU auto* tools and gcc) looks into `/usr/local` for external headers, libraries, and binaries. Certain ports might (and do) fail to build because during their build something incompatible is found and picked up
 from `/usr/local`. Good ports avoid this by explicitly specifying `--with-libfoo=/opt/local/lib/` or explicitly disabling all such possible dependencies altogether with `--disable-foo` or `--without-bar` but not all ports are able to do that.
+And even if all files that should be found in `/opt/local` are correctly used, headers and libraries provided by the operating system in `/usr` will still be overridden if files of the same name exist in `/usr/local`.
 
 If you ask us for help with a port failing to build because of something
 that it found in `/usr/local` you will be asked to remove what you've installed in `/usr/local`
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