thank you.... I don't think to check the man pages enough for macports issues. 
I will go look there more often. -- Ken

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:41 AM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-09-17 16:35, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> when working on the destrooting of complex ports it is tedious to have the 
>> ports rebuild with each portfile edit, esp the big ports that need the 
>> complex destrooting....
>> 
>> It must be possible to override this -- I feel I'm missing something simple 
>> somewhere. I hope this detail is not just buried in the guide somewhere that 
>> I missed.
> 
> You are looking for the port -o option. You most likely want to delete
> the work/destroot directory first.
> 
> This is indeed a bit hidden in documentation. It is listed in the man
> page, but there are no examples or use cases.
> 
> Rainer

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