On Monday October 10 2016 17:29:18 Clemens Lang wrote:

> > In fact, in absence of proof that my use of a symlinked $prefix explains
> > everything I won't assume that that is the culprit.
> 
> Well, let me lawyer you with your own mail from 2014 then:
>   https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2014-July/035965.html
> Your attitude of "unless you can proof it's me, it's you" isn't helpful. I've
> had enough of it.

Pardon, exactly where do I say that "it's you" (except maybe between the lines 
in that old exchange)?

And you think that telling me that it's the fact I'm doing something that's not 
supported is helpful or maybe even educational? I'm not unwilling to accept 
that my working hypothesis is wrong, but for that I'll need to know why the 
lookup fails in one condition but not in another.

In fact, I just discovered the reason. It is indeed related to my using a 
symlinked prefix. See? I wasn't right, but also not entirely wrong because I 
got the feature to work without reinstalling. I'll even admit to having been 
extremely shortsighted not registering the "offending" operation immediately.

Is there a good reason why action_provides (in port) does a `file normalize`? 
Wouldn't it be just as OK if the actual registry lookup (after doing all 
checks) used the original $filename?

R
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