On 04/28/2015 09:57 pm, Alexander Hansen wrote: > The “screw you over” thing was a reference to Homebrew’s use of > /usr/local. I’ve been burned by 3rd-party stuff in /usr/local enough > that it is indeed a sore point.
I guess I don't understand the Darwin implementation well enough. What makes /usr/local so potentially problematic? I've installed a number of Unix-based packages outside of any package manager--things that have a OS X/Darwin-specific installer, such as MacGPG--and they pretty much all go into /usr/local. My current desire to avoid using Homebrew on this system is based more on the difficulties I've had keeping track of two separate package managers than on any concerns or issues with where it installs. That, and I don't care for the lack of local information about their packages--you have to visit the project's home page to find out even what a package does in some cases. > Fink used to install in /usr/X11R6 back when X11 was essentially > impossible to build in alternative trees, but yeah, by policy we try > to avoid doing anything outside of the Fink tree. It reduces the > chance of damaging somebody’s system. Which makes sense, particularly knowing that you've been burned before. > It looks like you encountered the second reason we encourage people > to try building with only one job—some package build systems aren’t > able to use multiple threads, and this might be one of those. They > can be hard to detect because often things will build on the > maintainer’s machine but not on another with more cpus. Yeah, I admit I was remiss. Okay, I was lazy and tired. I'll try to avoid skipping that step in the future. > So it looks like icon needs a “UseMaxBuildJobs: false” declaration in > its .info file. Another attribute I wouldn't have even guessed existed. I suppose it's time for me to dig into more specifics about Fink packaging, huh? Especially since I've found two packages I had installed via Homebrew before that don't appear to be in Fink yet--they're just games, so it's not as though they're really important, but this might be a good opportunity for me to learn how to do this. I'd really like to be able to help more with this project in general. Mark D. McKean qpa...@quantumpanda.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
