Getting a second MacPorts into action FAILS

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Oct 25 11:42:21 PDT 2010


On 2010-10-26 05:34 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> But what I'm saying is that the dbus port (and probably all other ports that manually install plists instead of using the MacPorts facilities for that) are installing the plist even if startupitem_type is none. And these ports should be changed to not do that anymore.
> 
> probably true (to fix the problem for end users), but it is a bad long-term solution to have that logic in multiple places.

Indeed, better to fix the startupitem code to support multiple plists
and a configurable location to install them (or just a flag to say
whether to create links in /Library since they're already actually
installed under /opt/local/etc).

- Josh


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