On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 07:55 -0600, 1100110 wrote: > On 2/5/14, 6:55, Gary Willoughby wrote: […] > > Yes use brew *not* macports. The reason is brew is more well behaved > > where it installs libs and doesn't need root permissions. > > Oh good, I came very close to installing macports yesterday. Thanks!
I started using MacPorts long before Brew existed. MacPorts has improved massively over the last couple of years. If I was starting from scratch I would probably install Brew, but now I'm a MacPort user I'll probably stick. Brew refuses to install on a MacPort using machine, and there seems no way of telling Brew to install it's version of everything there was in a MacPort installation. AFAIK anyway. For packagers I would say targetting an installer, MacPorts and Brew for OSX is like doing a tarball, deb and rpm for Linux. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder