Other installers putting stuff in /opt/local

[Clemens Lang]

----- On 30 Jul, 2015, at 16:37, Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net wrote:

> Do we have a doc somewhere where we point other projects to when they’re doing
> this? (a list of reasons why it’s a bad idea, etc.)?
> 
> I just noticed a project doing it and opened a bug in their bug tracker about it
> - but it would be nice to have that documents some place I could link them to
> instead of having to explain it if they don’t immediately realize it’s a bad
> idea.

I added a big red warning to the guide a while ago. That should get you started:
https://guide.macports.org/#using.binaries.binary-packages

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Clemens Lang