MacPorts 2.0.0-beta2 now available for testing

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> And I'm not convinced setting it to /var/empty is a great solution. The issue in response to which you changed it from /dev/null to /var/empty was about a program's inability to create some sort of directory in home for its settings. So now it's going to create that settings directory inside /var/empty, which seems wrong; that directory *should* remain empty. I don't know if the OS cleans it out at some point.

It wasn't to create the file, it was to test it for where a file should never be.

Specifically, does the $HOME/.pangorc file exist? The test is to set it something that doesn't exist so we can test against defaults rather than the user environment. /var/empty is an empty folder, whereas /dev/null isn't a directory.

It looks like the perfect solution unless other packages will violate the mtree in the manner you suggest.

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