Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
I think MacPort is mainly for user programs and libraries. Admin
tools such as daemons and OS maintenance (such as stuff in /bin
and /sbin) should have already been in the OS X itself rather
than in
MacPort.
The packages in the `aqua` category are the only ones in MacPorts
that meet the .app qualifications. Not surprisingly, they're
installed into the /Applications folder by default.
Actually, that *is* rather surprising. The logical place would be to
have them in ${prefix}/Applications, just like the frameworks were
changed to use ${prefix}/Library (rather than /Library). But it was
something hardcoded in the OS that made the subdirectory /
Applications/MacPorts a better default... (and no idea why it
couldn't just be a symlink)
It would be better/easier to have everything under ${prefix}, instead
of installed into 4 possibly different locations (prefix, tclpackage,
applications, frameworks). Ignoring system ports that actually need
to install things elsewhere, that is (startup scripts, kernel
modules, etc). That way, you would only have one toplevel folder to
deal with...
--anders
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