MacPorts installs libraries I already have!

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Dec 4 19:26:29 PST 2008


On Dec 4, 2008, at 16:50, Kevin Reid wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:40, Andrea D'Amore wrote:
>
>> You could check FAQ:
>> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ 
>> FAQ#WillMacPortslinktosystemlibrariesratherthanitsown>
>> and
>> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries>
>>
>> By the way those anchors are _ugly_, we should consider switching  
>> to numbers instead, like "#2.5" and "#2.6" editing the  
>> [[PageOutline]] macro.
>
> Using numbers is a bad idea, unless the document is never modified;  
> existing links break whenever items are added, removed, or reordered.
>
> I recommend creating short identifiers for each heading separate  
> from any numbering *or* title.
>
> (The Subversion FAQ is an example of this style:
>   <http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html>)

Yes, I would love to have cleaner anchors like the Subversion FAQ,  
however the Subversion FAQ is a manually crafted HTML document; it  
was not made using Trac. How can we do the same with Trac syntax?





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