DarwinPorts and my rear end

[Greg the dogsitter]

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

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