On Thursday November 13 2014 08:36:07 Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 1) Don't change anything such as symlinks etc; it *will* break something.
And don't be surprised if you can do clever symlinking all you want, MacPorts
will know what you're up to and figure out where stuff really lives :-/
> 2) After a major upgrade e.g. to Yosemite, you *must* do MacPorts/Xcode etc.
Yes. You mean 10.10.1, right? Right? ;)
> Oh, and my thanks to the porters too; I know it's a difficult job.
Ditto. It can be frustrating, but so much fun too.
Now that I think of it: one thing that *would* be really nice is an official
way to install things that are not in MacPorts somewhere under /opt/local ,
with a similar support for (de)activated versions and uninstalling. That could
be as "simple" as providing wrapper to configure, cmake, make etc. that
basically do what they also do for those commands during port
{build,destroot,install} (but with PREFIX set to ${prefix}/contrib or something
of the sort).
Is there a *reason* to install under ${prefix}? Not in particular, but it does
seem handy.
R.
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