Launchpad-links to non-existing executables stay behind after deinstalling mythtv-core.27

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Mon Dec 30 14:06:15 PST 2013


On Dec 30, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Yes, that would be expected behaviour.  MacPorts has no way of knowing that the link was created so it ends up pointing to a now-deleted file after an uninstall.

Where do the links come from? Are they created by MythTV at runtime?

If MacPorts' MythTV creates symlinks in ${applications_dir} at runtime, you should add a post-deactivate phase that deletes the symlinks.

vq


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