On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:17, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well the people who could create that are the ones here on macports-dev. > :-) I'd say it's worth discussing, even if it's separate.
Absolutely. > Make every portfile into a meta package, where each has a directory for > the old versions? That's how I imagined it. Well, a directory for each version, to account for patches, etc. >>> Does TimeMachine already crawl the MacPorts directories to provide this? >> >> Unless the user has exclude the MacPorts prefix it should be backed up. > > Ah, then for the time being perhaps we should point users to doing this if > they desperately want to revert to previously installed version that they > uninstalled? Hmm, but maybe not. I'm now thinking about $applications_dir > and what not that are outside of $prefix. Lots of forced activation will > suddenly be required. Yeah, it'd work (re: could work), but it'd be complicated. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
