[89200] trunk/dports/science

Adam Mercer ram at macports.org
Thu Jan 26 18:02:19 PST 2012


On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 19:22, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> For all three ports ligo-gracedb, ligo-lars, ligo-lvalert, why do this -- why turn off the portgroup's automatic linking and then do linking yourself?

Because last time I looked the automatic linking added
-${python.branch} at the end of the binary name. I don't want this.

> If you must do linking yourself, why use the "system" procedure to launch the ln program? Why not use the built-in ln procedure?
>
> Why make hardlinks instead of symlinks?

Good questions, to which I have no answer. I'll update them.

Cheers

Adam


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