Hi Mike, I would buy a cheap second hard disk, install OS X on it and boot into it when you want to experiment. In addition to safeguarding your working software, you'll have a fallback if your main hard disk fails. John

-----Original Message----- From: macports-users-bounces@lists.macosforge.org [mailto:macports-users-bounces@lists.macosforge.org] On Behalf Of Michal Roszka Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:13 PM To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Subject: How to test things easily without affecting installed ports?

Hi,

I need to test some things, mostly whether a port I maintain build correctly or not. In addition, I do not want to affect software I actually use for my everyday work.

I was thinking about additional MacPorts installation, which could have it's own directory tree to deal with, but it seems difficult to me. Multiple Mac OS X installation does not sound good either, does it? What would you suggest?

Cheers,

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