I am currently using MacPorts on Lion but thinking of switching to Homebrew.
- There is a suggestion that installing to
/usr/local
causes problems and~/.homebrew
would be an alternative. Can I instead use something like/homebrew
with the same permissions as/usr/local
so other users on my machine can also use the programs? - Will I have to rebuild anything (auctex, scipy) which are built with gcc from MacPorts?
- As long as I add the Homebrew path (
/usr/local
,~/.homebrew
,/hombrew
) ahead of/opts/local
of MacPorts, can I leave MacPorts installed?
I am aware of the other posts on this exchange forum regarding coexistence of the two package managers, but do not feel they address these questions specifically. Thanks.