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Tim McNamara wrote:

> I'm familiar with fink and no longer use it because its non-standard
> installation paths (putting everything in a /sw directory) end up
> causing more trouble than it's worth.  The other emerging standard is
> to put everything in an /opt directory, which has the added benefit
> of creating probelsm with /sw installations as well as putting files
> in unexpected places so that standard installations can't find them.
> Sigh.  The OS X community really hasn't quite gotten the hang of this
> yet.

Just make /sw and /opt links to /usr/local.  :-)


-- 
Kevin Rodgers