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you could actually do the same in /usr/local. all you need to do is install all packages to their own folder (eg /usr/local/custom/ruby-1.8.7) and then symlink

by nudded 17y ago

you could actually do the same in /usr/local. all you need to do is install all packages to their own folder (eg /usr/local/custom/ruby-1.8.7) and then symlink the binary to /usr/local/bin. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/ http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/ is a package manager that tries to do just that

tsally 17y ago
Seems like you might as well do it in opt then, since it is far less common to encapsulate things in folders in local.
sant0sk1 17y ago
Sure you could do something like that, but the OP did not suggest such a practice.