<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Ludwig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:macports@metaspasm.org" target="_blank">macports@metaspasm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br>
> MacPorts should be the only software installing files into the MacPorts<br>
> prefix (/opt/local); using pip (or anything else) to install software into<br>
> the MacPorts prefix is not recommended.<br>
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</span>Does this include ruby gems?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>All of Perl, Python, and Ruby recommend you do not install manually any modules / packages in a package manager-provided tree, not even with standard utilities like Perl's cpan. There are very good reasons for this, although less applicable to MacPorts than to, say, Linux (where installing the wrong Perl module on a Debian-ish system can break dpkg/apt-get, or the wrong Python module on a Red Hat-ish system can break yum. I've actually had to help someone try to recover from the former).</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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