[R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?

[Steve Revilak]

One small correction, I should have said "MacPorts" instead of
"Darwinports".  (Thanks to Kjell Konis for reminding me of the name
change).


> From: Steve  Revilak <steve at srevilak.net>
> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?
> Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.1.10.0809071521360.286 at fchq.ybpny>
> To: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
> 
>> From: Douglas Bates Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 07:54:32 -0500
>> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?
>
>> I would like to install gnucash on a Macbook running OS X 10.5.4.  It
>> appears that I would need either Fink or Darwinports installed to
>> install gnucash.  Because my past experiences with Fink have not been
>> positive I am considering installing Darwinports.  However, I notice
>> that they want me to override many system libraries with their
>> versions of the libraries (http://gnucash.darwinports.com/install/).
>> Am I likely to cause problems with R running on this system if I do
>> so?
>
> I have around 40 Darwinports packages installed on Mac OS X 10.4.11
> (but not gnucash), along with R (CRAN binaries) and a texlive
> distribution; I also have a similar arrangement on another machine
> running Mac OS X 10.5.4 (albeit with fewer Darwinports packages).  In
> general, I've found Darwinports to be very reliable, and I've never
> had problems with Darwinports interfering with R or tex (or vice
> versa).
>
> If you're truly worried, you can always append /opt/local/bin to your
> PATH instead of prepending it.
>
> Some Darwinports packages have a lot of dependencies.  However,
> Darwinports seems to install everything in /opt/local, along with
> supplying the appropriate library directories during compilation.
>
> I don't see any harm in installing gnucash via Darwinports.  If, later
> on, you suspect that Darwinports is causing a conflict with some other
> software on your machine, you can easily confirm (or refute) that
> suspicion by renaming /opt/local to /opt/local.NO.  Or, just uninstall
> it.
> For gnucash, installing via a package management system seems like the
> safest bet.  IIRC, gnucash depends on a lot of libraries that aren't
> part of Mac OS (e.g., gnome).
>
> Steve
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