> On Sep 11, 2016, at 5:57 PM, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk> > wrote: > > I’m not sure if I am allowed to put my name on some kind of cc list for the > ticket, since I’m not intending to work on the problem, but only want to know > when it has gone away.
Feel free to Cc yourself on the ticket Mojca linked earlier. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47755 > Possibly I misunderstand, but your earlier emails seem to imply that you feel > that the only problem with “select” in MacPorts is the creation of symlinks > that are not deleted when uninstalling. However, I do not believe this is the > whole story. For example, my command >> port installed ‘*python*3*’ > > was answered >> “None of the specified ports is installed”. > > Nevertheless the directory /opt/local/etc/select/python3 remains on my system > as useless clutter and there is no obvious way to delete it except manually, > which ought to be a “No-no". This has nothing to do with symlinks. This is not really an issue, unless you're a neat freak. The same thing happens with configuration files that are installed in post-activate phases. vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
