Mixing brew and macports

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Brew installs into /usr/local which can if it duplicates files (esp. libraries or header files) in MacPorts, cause problems, because apparently not all tools MacPorts must use for building can be persuaded to ignore /usr/local in their search for files - so they might find and use the wrong version.

That said, you may get away with a LITTLE of it without too much problem; I have, so far. :-)


> On Jun 7, 2022, at 4:20 AM, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
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> I’m not sure whether I can harmlessly use brew to install a package that is not available under macports, to be precise, sigrok/pulseview is the target.
> 
> All available remedies refer to using brew install.
> 
> May I use brew along with macports, the latter being my tool of choice for maintaining external software packages for macOS?
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> —
> Christoph
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