On Feb 24, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote:

> On Feb 24 14:51:07, sewebs...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote:
>>> Does that mean that macports installs stuff out of /opt/local?
>>> For example, under /Applications?
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes.
> 
> Do we mention it in the Guide or in the FAQ?
> 
> There was this whole debate about how /usr/local is bad
> and /opt/local is good, the "official" stance being that
> under /usr/local, third site installs could hurt macports,
> or macports could hurt them. Isn't that exactly the case
> with /Applications? Maybe even more so, because the
> installers that people click through tend to install
> into /Applications more than into /usr/local?

MacPorts installs app bundles into /Applications/MacPorts. A third-party 
installer could theoretically clobber a MacPorts app, but it seems highly 
unlikely that a third-party installer would put something into 
/Applications/MacPorts.

Anyway, as Jeremy noted in his response, the real issue with /usr/local is 
opportunistic linking.

vq
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