On Sat, 26 Feb 2022, Peter Hancock wrote: > Quite. I have full Xcode, regretfully, plus the CLI tools. I'm never > confiident that some that Macports installation needs the full thing.
I've never wanted to find out the hard way, so I always install the full Xcode (after a lot of digging around to find an old version -- 10.0 -- for my ancient MacBook Pro and High Sierra). > Being alerted is one thing, undergoing the grief of installing The Full > Thing is another, and uninstalling TFT afterwards yet another. (It's not > 100% clear to me how to get rid of it, while keeping the CLT) I have a 500GB SSD, so space isn't a problem :-) > A peripheral point is the way Apple deletes "receipts" for previous > command reinstalls, and once or twice a month, one (seemingly) has to > jump through the well-worn hoop of touching a flag-file into existence, > doing an Apple update, and deleting the flag afterwards. > > That's tolerable, but it's a chore, and a worrying one. It's tempting to > think (falsely): if I install TFT, perhaps this nonsense will stop. > > The clearer this (general, TFT) topic can be made, the better. I'm not quite sure what this is all about; then again, as I said I always install the full Xcode and I've never seen this problem. -- Dave