On Feb 19, 2012, at 16:11, Art McGee wrote: >>> I've got MacPorts, Fink, and Pkgsrc co-existing on my machine, and >>> they're working OK so far. >> >> I hope that means that you have both MacPorts and Fink configured for >> nonstandard prefixes, meaning your MacPorts is somewhere other than >> /opt/local and your Fink is somewhere other than /sw. Otherwise you're just >> asking for trouble. > > I've been using it this way since Tiger, and haven't had any problems, > mainly because MacPorts is my primary, and Fink is only a backup when > something is missing or out of date in MacPorts (e.g., Re-Alpine). > > Also, the PATH, MANPATH, and INFOPATH to MacPorts comes before Fink, > which I read as advice somewhere a long time ago, and that seems to > allow it to work. > > I imagine if I was using Fink more heavily then I might run into a > conflict, but I'm not, so I haven't.
If you have MacPorts and Fink installed, and either of them are in their default locations, you will eventually run into problems; please don't do that. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
