XCode 4.3

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Feb 19 17:06:46 PST 2012


On Feb 19, 2012, at 16:11, Art McGee wrote:

>>> I've got MacPorts, Fink, and Pkgsrc co-existing on my machine, and
>>> they're working OK so far.
>> 
>> I hope that means that you have both MacPorts and Fink configured for nonstandard prefixes, meaning your MacPorts is somewhere other than
>> /opt/local and your Fink is somewhere other than /sw. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble.
> 
> I've been using it this way since Tiger, and haven't had any problems,
> mainly because MacPorts is my primary, and Fink is only a backup when
> something is missing or out of date in MacPorts (e.g., Re-Alpine).
> 
> Also, the PATH, MANPATH, and INFOPATH to MacPorts comes before Fink,
> which I read as advice somewhere a long time ago, and that seems to
> allow it to work.
> 
> I imagine if I was using Fink more heavily then I might run into a
> conflict, but I'm not, so I haven't.

If you have MacPorts and Fink installed, and either of them are in their default locations, you will eventually run into problems; please don't do that.





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