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DarwinPorts and my rear end - Greg the dogsitter - 04-07-2006
Anyone have opinions on the best way to install unix-y stuff? I've grown to like DarwinPorts over the past week, but also understand that it puts stuff in the /opt/ directory.
Does that cause problems for other software? For instance, what if PHP is maybe expecting a database to be in /usr, but DarwinPorts has put everything in /opt/?
And what if PHP5 is already installed, but DarwinPorts installs PHP4 as a necessary component of some other program?
Whatcha think?
GtDS
Edit: That should get more views.
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - NewtonMP2100 - 04-07-2006
is this related to the Uranus thread?
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Refurbvirgin - 04-07-2006
So now how will you know how many thread views are by Unix fans and how many by pedophiles?
Just for the record I only opened this thread because I've found Greg's words entertaining in the past, should any FBI child-porn investigators be monitoring this forum. Nor do I have any intent of posting nude pics of myself. Please don't kick down my door at three a.m.
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - cbelt3 - 04-07-2006
Your baby ? If so, congrats. If not,
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Greg the dogsitter - 04-07-2006
cbelt3 Wrote:
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> Your baby?
Read the subject line. :-)
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Seacrest - 04-07-2006
Just add /opt/whatever to your path?
I think you would have to recompile something like PHP4 in order to point it to /opt/blah/blah for certain binaries or maybe the Darwinports team has thought of that and created the proper symlinks for itself.
I have never used dp. I did use fink once back on 10.1, but never liked the fact that it created that non-standard path.
Most *nix software I need compiles fine under 10.3, and goes where it's expected to, usually /usr/local.
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Gutenberg - 04-07-2006
I'm thinking I really don't want to know about your rear end.
Thank you.
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - rgG - 04-08-2006
Is that really your rear end or just a generic rear end that you are trying to pass off as your rear end?
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Greg the dogsitter - 04-08-2006
rgG Wrote:
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> Is that really your rear end or just a generic
> rear end that you are trying to pass off as your
> rear end?
It is my genuine butt.
> BunBun says, "I was realy hoping for some Gefilte
> fish."
Ooh - does BunBun like the Gefilte Yuck that the fish is packed in?
Seacrest: I owe you some real responses, here and elsewhere; will get to them ASAP.
Re: DarwinPorts and my rear end - Greg the dogsitter - 04-08-2006
Seacrest Wrote:
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> Just add /opt/whatever to your path?
Um...where? No, don't answer that. See my next paragraph.
> I think you would have to recompile something like
> PHP4 in order to point it to /opt/blah/blah for
> certain binaries or maybe the Darwinports team has
> thought of that and created the proper symlinks
> for itself.
Thus far, I'm a GUI (Excel, Access, FileMaker, etc.) sort of guy. While I have the developer tools installed, and have opened Xcode and thought "Hey, some menus!", that's about as far as I got. So I fully understand the idea of compiling with different different options for different targets, I haven't a clue as how to pull that off.
Not that I'm asking for a walkthrough!
But that is why I'm going to stick with DarwinPorts for now; I need the handholding.