On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:49, Brian Barnes wrote:
I noticed the following today:
nell:/private/etc barnes$ locate periodic | grep bin
/opt/local/bin/periodic
/opt/local/var/macports/software/openmotif/2.3.0_2/opt/local/bin/
periodic
/opt/premp/bin/periodic
/opt/premp/var/macports/software/openmotif/2.3.0_2/opt/local/bin/
periodic
/usr/sbin/periodic
nell:/private/etc barnes$ sudo which periodic
/opt/local/bin/periodic
this is, of course, due to the prepending of $PATH by macports
(1.6.0) in .profile:
# Your previous .profile (if any) is saved as .profile.mpsaved
# Setting the path for MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
I believe the 'periodic' commands of openmotif and /usr/sbin are
extremely different ;). Is this sort of thing known/expected?
Are there other conflicts with system commands? Or is this
perhaps an openmotif port bug? Just curious.
It is usually desired that things installed with MacPorts should
replace things provided by the OS, because usually the thing you
install with MacPorts is a newer version of the thing provided by the
OS. It is unfortunate that openmotif apparently provides a binary of
the same name as a system binary but with a totally different
purpose. Perhaps you could convince the developers of openmotif, or
the maintainer of the openmotif port, to install this binary under a
different name instead.
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