> Le 19 janv. 2015 à 10:34, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> a écrit : > > Please Reply All so that the discussion stays on the mailing list.
Hmmm, I did. > Of note is that MacPorts used to not do this, or rather, using these archives > used to be optional, and not the default. Previously, the default was that > the contents of /opt/local/var/macports/software was the actual software > being installed. Hard links would then be created in the "real" locations. > This did not waste disk space, however various new features of OS X > interacted badly with this, including Spotlight as of OS X v10.4 and Time > Machine as of OS X v10.5, so we were forced to remove the previous mode of > operation and insist on using archives instead. OK. So maybe we could reconsider the existence of this feature, or at least, the fact that its mandatory. > I am not familiar with what other package management systems do. Well, apt-get and the rest have no such equivalent. They just deploy the software, period. They don't keep a copy at hand, just in case. And yes, there's no acivate/deactivate (that I know of). _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
