On Sunday June 05 2016 17:00:17 Gustaf Neumann wrote:
> i was talking about a general mechanism, through which a port maintainer
> can change the behavior of commands on which others depend. I do not see
> much danger with extending the platform command as discussed.
Of course. I wasn't thinking of just any port maintainer pushing "rolling"
updates to base; that'd be something that only the base maintainers should do
evidently, and then only for features that are backwards compatible. But since
much of base is implemented in Tcl it shouldn't be particularly hard to
override procedures defined in ${prefix}/libexec/macports/lib through files in
the central _resources tree. The only question would be when those files would
be parsed.
R.
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