What would YOU like to see 'port doctor' do?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 06:40:59 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> There are some more unusual ways that people manage to break their
> systems, like replacing executables (sed, tar, etc...) in /usr/bin with
> incompatible versions (or just deleting them). I'm not sure if you want
> to go down that rabbit hole, but if you can find a general way of
> checking that won't break when OS updates change the files, that'd be
> great.
>

pkgutil should work for that, I think.

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