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dead horse
I hate to be a bother, but I am just very curious to know why "/sw just made more sense". I can't think of a single reason why that would be, and can only think of downsides. Not to beat a dead horse, but you've really made me curious now what the reasons are that cause it to make "more sense".
dead horse
Hmmm... well, for me, /sw works better than /usr/local. In /usr/local, I can stick stuff specific to the machine (which is traditional what /usr/local is for, hence the "local" part). But with /sw I can manage fink on one system and then copy the entire /sw tree to other machines (which keeps all my tools, etc. in sync). Instead of copying two trees (/sw and /usr/local) to other machines, I just have to copy one. Since it really doesn't matter to fink that mutt and friends are living there, it doesn't hurt fink. If I ever want to remove it, I don't run an uninstaller for fink, I would just "rm -rf /sw". Since a lot of my mutt setup relies on things in /sw, if I ever were to remove fink, stuff in mutt just wouldn't work (or work as nice). So keeping it all in one place, again, makes sense to me.
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Thanks for your explanation. Of course, you can install any tool into any location -- I've done it for years.
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No problem. Yeah, I do things a bit backwards on my macs... =) On my Annvix boxes, it's always "my stuff" in /usr/local, but I don't do that here as I find too many other external/third-party packages put stuff in /usr/local so I prefer using /sw for my own stuff (since, in a sense, I'm compiling the fink stuff myself I guess). |
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