/usr/local question

[Saiwing Yeung]

On Apr 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 19:54, saiwingy wrote:
> 
>> Since MacPorts is not compatible with /usr/local, every time I install/update
>> ports I had to
>> 
>> sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local.bak
>> 
>> and then after I am done building macports stuff I would move it back. This
>> works fine but is kind of cumbersome and sometimes the moved /usr/local
>> directory triggers a lot of mdutil activities. What do people do to automate
>> this, or to make the process easier? Thanks!
> 
> We don't install things in /usr/local. Why do you want to install things there?


I don't install things there, but there are things in there (mostly from Mac OS) that I'd like to keep and use.