Fedora does MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 7, 2012, at 21:50, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 12/08/2012 03:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2012, at 20:59, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> 
>>> I thought maybe somebody might find this interesting:
>>> 
>>> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html>
>> 
>> Which part should we be looking at? In what way does "Fedora do MacPorts"? I didn't see "MacPorts" mentioned on that page.
> 
> No, it was more to do with the concept behind Software Collections.
> Disregarding the fact it installs into /opt, it looks a similar
> principle; a set of supplementary ports installed elsewhere in the
> system (in /opt) that do not clash with system stuff.
> 
> It was all rather light hearted on my part. My apologies if that was not
> made obvious in my post.

Ah I see. Well I'm not surprised by this, since that's the purpose of the /opt directory in a UNIX system: to hold OPTional software. That's why MacPorts uses a prefix under /opt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure