Other installers putting stuff in /opt/local

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Jul 30 09:39:56 PDT 2015


On 2015-7-31 00:37 , Daniel J. Luke 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.

We have <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xmlwf> which
documents how it affects our users at least.

- Josh


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