switching between x11 and quartz

[Ken Cunningham]

As you probably know, homebrew runs it's entire operation that way, symlinking into /usr/local.

> On Oct 30, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> I don't know if anything will break if you use symlinks; I would expect most ports would work but some might not. 
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> Long ago, macports used to use symlinks in some cases to activate ports. It did mostly work, but the cases where it didn't were frustrating. I'm sure there's data in the list archives about it if one is really curious.
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> Daniel J. Luke
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