On Aug 11, 2013, at 7:56 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > + - Add support for autostarting tasks with startupitems after installing. > + Useful for the certsync port. (#35474, cal in r106810, 109245)
While I can see where this is useful - it was purposely not added to startupitem support in the early implementation and I think we at least want to highly discourage anyone from using it. Without it, installing a port is always fairly safe (ie, it will never be listening to an outside address and letting people log in unless you take additional positive action beyond installing it). Personally, I would like to be able to globally disable it (with a conf setting) just to protect against the possibility that someone has it enabled for something that gets installed as a dependency that I don't actually want running [it would be cool if the implementation of the global 'off' switch for this automatically added a note (or at least a ui_msg) that says what would have been run, or what needs to be run to 'complete' the install]. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
