General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

[Jeff Adams]

Sounds like someone needs a hug. ;-)

I feel your pain.  MacPorts will remove a lot of the
pain, but not all.

The .profile vs. .bash_profile issue is one that
SHOULD be documented in the wiki.  I would document it
<cough><cough> if someone would tell me how to get
write access to the wiki <cough><cough>.

I don't know why MacPorts defaults to editing your
.profile file.  bash is the default shell, and it uses
.bash_profile.  

You're romanticizing France.  The reason people there
have free time is because they're all unemployed.

Fink installs to a "non-standard" location (/sw)
because it's safer that way.  For the most part unix
doesn't care where any files are, and that way fink
doesn't need to worry about file/directory name
conflicts.  MacPorts does the exact same thing except
it uses /opt instead of /sw.

Remember that supporting unix apps isn't Apple's first
priority.  Their OS pretty well works as shipped, you
can't expect too much beyond that.  

Jeff
--- Bill Hernandez <ms at mac-specialist.com> wrote:

> [LENGTHY INCOHERENT RANT]
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