As you probably know, homebrew runs it's entire operation that way, symlinking into /usr/local.
> On Oct 30, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > >> On Oct 27, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >> I don't know if anything will break if you use symlinks; I would expect most >> ports would work but some might not. > > Long ago, macports used to use symlinks in some cases to activate ports. It > did mostly work, but the cases where it didn't were frustrating. I'm sure > there's data in the list archives about it if one is really curious. > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > > >
