"man port" not working?

[paul beard]

On 10/8/07, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at brierdr.com> wrote:

>  Experience has shown users to be somewhat limited in
> this regard, hence Ryan's guidelines, but if you're the exception to
> the general rule then by all means "go for it."


Um, what Ryan and Jordan said. Not everyone who picks up on MacPorts is
going to know how to or care about search paths and libraries, and I don't
know of any other OS that supports two package management systems easily
(FreeBSD supports RPM in compatibility mode but I have found it to have
issues occasionally).

if you can manage the details, have at it. Most people use package managers
to avoid that kind of knuckle-bashing.

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
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