Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:14:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports > > symlink-ed on an external hard drive ? > > I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources > symlinked as well as .../software and .../build; this meant port > sync/install/activate/deactivate and friends failed safely if I didn't > have the drive attached. (I don't know if this is still true; haven't > used it in a while, and there have been a few updates to MacPorts > itself since then.)
I haven't seen the code paths that use these foldes change a lot recently, so you should be fine. -- Clemens _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
