Need help diagnosing a digikam / imagemagick bug

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 19:58 , Jürgen Starek wrote:
> wouldn't be better to set the path globally in /etc/launchd.conf  
> during the installation of MacPorts. I suspect that similar problems  
> should exist for all programs using imagemagick, and adding /opt/ 
> local/bin/ to the PATH systemwide should prevent all these problems  
> in one go, shouldn't it?


Except that then you have the potential for system procedures using  
MacPorts programs when they're expecting system programs that may  
potentially behave differently; this is why MacPorts enforces a  
separation between the two (e.g. building its own Perl and Python  
instead of installing modules into the system ones) to start with.

(Seen in a different circumstance but worth keeping in mind:  a  
coworker pushed a new GNU coreutils out to Linux hosts, which had an  
incompatible "hostname" command.  Next morning all the Linux boxes had  
decided their hostname was "-s".  [Cleaning this up was "fun".]  This  
is why you want to make sure the system uses its own programs by  
default.)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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