running macports along with homebrew

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:32 AM, db <iamsudo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 30 Aug 2017, at 10:16, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
>> the newer, safer convention is distinct subdirectories of /opt, for each package or set of commonly managed packages; thus, MacPorts by default uses /opt/local, XQuartz uses /opt/X11 (for the stuff that's not elsewhere), etc.
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> Is it a tacit convention? I couldn't find a source myself.
> 
> 
> Thank you all for the useful information. It seems only Umesh is actually using homebrew though.

What is it that you want that MacPorts does not provide?  

Craig