any good audio/video editing apps in macports?

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Sun Feb 24 15:02:01 PST 2013


The big issue with /usr/local is it gets pulled into software builds without permission, due to various configure scripts and compilers. Clobbering files in /Applications is a separate issue, since they tend to be monolithic.

Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:

>On Feb 24 14:51:07, sewebster at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
>> > Does that mean that macports installs stuff out of /opt/local?
>> > For example, under /Applications?
>> >
>> 
>> Yes.
>
>Do we mention it in the Guide or in the FAQ?
>
>There was this whole debate about how /usr/local is bad
>and /opt/local is good, the "official" stance being that
>under /usr/local, third site installs could hurt macports,
>or macports could hurt them. Isn't that exactly the case
>with /Applications? Maybe even more so, because the
>installers that people click through tend to install
>into /Applications more than into /usr/local?
>
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