Snow Leopard and /usr/local

Ben Greenfield ben at cogs.com
Thu Sep 24 12:17:34 PDT 2009


On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:53, Ben Greenfield wrote:
>
>> I think the default is usually the default is /opt/local with usual  
>> a symlink to /usr/local/
>


Sorry for the bad advice (and english)

> /opt/local is the default MacPorts prefix. As of MacPorts 1.8.0 we  
> no longer allow changing the prefix to /usr/local because we do not  
> want to provide technical support for the many unexpected situations  
> that this causes. Creating a symlink at /usr/local pointing to /opt/ 
> local would probably be just as bad so please do not do that for  
> regular use.

Thanks for the update.


To clarify it is fine to have a /usr/local symlink just don't mix it  
with port commands?

Thanks,

Ben


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