Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

[Mark Anderson]

It's possible to get Fink and MacPorts to work together, although I don't
recommend it. Before we had ROOT in MacPorts, my wife and I got this to
work on her machine for Particle Physics-y things. Homebrew however, does
not really work and play well with others. If you want to use it, you
really can't use anything else. As for the stuff in usr/local - I'd move it
as everyone is suggesting, and then build everything with MacPorts that you
can. For instance, we have a ports for texlive that will install pretty
much any amount of texlive you want.

Mark

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> You replied only to me. Remember to use the Reply All button in your email
> program to reply to the group also. I’ve re-added the group address to this
> reply.
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 01:37, macosforge.99.kyoto at spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
> > Thank you for responding to my query（not sure if this reply is going to
> you or the entire group???). Yes, I would like give up on homebrew and
> stick with macport...I was led into using it without realizing the
> consequences. I have no idea which is better or which I need,
> >
> > but I am not adept enough at unix to figure out what I will need to do
> do/check to make sure removing homebrew  doesn't mess up things worse.
> Right now everything except vietOCR seems to be working just fine, and I
> don't want to mess it up. As far as computers go, I am "porting" from
> windows, and  just beginning to catch up on all the ins and outs of how
> linux does things, and sometimes it throws me a surprise....
> >
> > am I right that you are implying if I uninstall homebrew I will not mess
> up ports, e.g. ghostscript, installed via macport? That was key number one.
>
> Hopefully removing the software you have in /usr/local would not cause
> problems for software you installed using MacPorts, but I cannot guarantee
> that. The problem is that by installing software in /usr/local (whether by
> using Homebrew or other means), other software you build (including
> software build using MacPorts) may find that software in /usr/local and use
> it. This is why we do not support installing software in /usr/local while
> using MacPorts: because it leads to unpredictable results and sometimes
> problems.
>
>
> > At the least I would like to properly deal with the ghostscript
> 9.0.7...I need to figure out why homebrew didn't link...I would like ot
> know if I uninstall it will it also uninstall 9.0.5 (as it usually would in
> windows....)
> > I was able to figure out via terminal that opt/local/bin is ghostscript
> 9.10
> > and that usr/local/bin/gs is 9.5
> > and 9.7 is in /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.07/bin/gs, which I assume
> is the unlinked brew, and that 9.5 must have been an old brew. I only
> installed it because I didn't know I already had ghostscript.
>
> I have never used Homebrew so I do not know how it works. I recommend you
> consult Homebrew documentation for instructions on how to uninstall
> Homebrew and anything you installed with it, if you would like to use
> MacPorts instead. Otherwise, consult the MacPorts Guide for instructions on
> uninstalling MacPorts so that you can instead use Homebrew.
>
>
> > Generally I don't mind uninstalling homebrew, but I can see that
> usr/local/bin has some things/formulas that don't seem to come from
> homebrew, specifically the  texlive-2013 I just installed via the pkg seems
> to have landed in usr/local/texlive. Also, I see directories for QT and
> macGPG2. So my next question is what do I do about these?
>
> I recommend you remove anything in /usr/local to ensure you do not
> introduce problems for software built using MacPorts. If removing
> /usr/local reveals that problems were already introduced for software you
> previously built using MacPorts, rebuild those MacPorts ports, for example
> using rev-upgrade as suggested earlier in this thread.
>
>
> > Can they coexist/be installed with macports? If not, should I move to
> homebrew, except I have quite a bit installed via macports, and would ahve
> to install all these via homebrew, correct??
>
> As a manager of the MacPorts project, and having not used any other OS X
> package manager in many many years, I of course recommend you use MacPorts.
> If there’s anything Homebrew is doing for you that MacPorts isn’t, please
> let us know so that we can investigate whether we can improve MacPorts to
> meet your needs. For example, if individual software packages you need are
> not in MacPorts, file port request tickets in our issue tracker.
>
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