Lion Recovery Partition

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:17, Jeremy Lavergne
<jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>
> Well the people who could create that are the ones here on macports-dev.
> :-) I'd say it's worth discussing, even if it's separate.

Absolutely.

> Make every portfile into a meta package, where each has a directory for
> the old versions?

That's how I imagined it. Well, a directory for each version, to
account for patches, etc.

>>> Does TimeMachine already crawl the MacPorts directories to provide this?
>>
>> Unless the user has exclude the MacPorts prefix it should be backed up.
>
> Ah, then for the time being perhaps we should point users to doing this if
> they desperately want to revert to previously installed version that they
> uninstalled? Hmm, but maybe not. I'm now thinking about $applications_dir
> and what not that are outside of $prefix. Lots of forced activation will
> suddenly be required.

Yeah, it'd work (re: could work), but it'd be complicated.

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