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Can pkgsrc, Homebrew, Fink, and MacPorts peacefully coexist?
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Mar 15, 20262962 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I heard that some people like to use both Fink and Macports since some packages exist in one and not the other. Recently I've had trouble building and running packages like GRASS and Digikam w/ MacPorts, and have started looking at alternatives. Just wondering: would pkgsrc and Homebrew also coexis…
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Homebrew will cause problems when building software from source if it is installed in . This is the default, which is a bad choice as this path is in the default search path of compilers and other tools. Therefore builds from other packaging softwar…
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