moving "macports1.0" to ${prefix}

[Landon Fuller]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 02:15, Anders F Björklund wrote:

>
> For MacPorts 1.6, it might be a good idea to consider moving  
> "macports1.0" from the current @TCL_PACKAGE_DIR@ directory to the  
> @prefix_expanded@/share/macports/Tcl directory, in order to make  
> the MacPorts installation self-contained within the designated  
> prefix ?
>
> If the "macports1.0" module needs to be in the system's Tcl package  
> directory in order for other (inferior) software to find it, then  
> can't this be accomplished by setting up a symbolic link ? e.g. / 
> Library/Tcl/macports1.0 -> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0

I'll register a "please, no!". The whole point of putting macports  
in /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 was to support "inferior" software that  
needs to be able to find the system's macports installation,  
regardless of ${prefix}.

There's always --with-tclpackage, so people can do this manually if  
they need to.

-landonf
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