circular dependencies

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:18 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can it do that without deactivating everything that's not somehow a
> dependency (and thus making it impossible to do anything while an install
> is being done), or by duplicating potentially a huge portion of the entire
> MacPorts tree?


By intercepting system calls, like Debian's fakeroot.

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