#31186 off-trac & Guide

[Marko Käning]

On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Hope you don't mind, I'm replying on the mailing list.
Of course not. :-)

>> Concerning #31186 I just wanted to say that, yes, you are right that the Guide isn't wrong, BUT, it would be less confusing if the "/MacPorts" subfolder would not be omitted. The prefix certainly already ensures the distinguishing between different installs, but the "/MacPorts" subfolder would also keep the parallel installs in the same directory tree scheme.
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> I don't see a reason to suggest doing that. Feel free to do it yourself in your own installation if that makes you feel more organized. To me it's redundant.
+1

> I'd much rather make the default applications_dir ${prefix}/Applications, with a symlink at /Applications/MacPorts pointing to it, since the #1 reason people change applications_dir is to avoid overlap between multiple MacPorts installations. At least I assume that's the main reason. It's certainly the reason I do. We already changed the default frameworks_dir from /Library/Frameworks to ${prefix}/Library/Frameworks some years ago for the same reason. I'm just not sure how we're going to handle upgrading people from the old applications_dir default to the new one.
OK, so I won't change anything in the Guide. Thanks for your feedback.

> Yes, our documentation situation is not very cohesive.
+1