startupitem issue with unmounted volume (non-default prefix)

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> ok, so we should probably be copying the plist (instead of symlinking it - which is a lesson we should have already learned from back in the ‘images’ days) - and we likely also want something like the above.
> 
> I don't remember: any reason why we need a copy/symlink there? Why can't we just put the plist there (and only there)?

I believe it was a desire to have everything in $prefix (and maybe to facilitate when people have more than one install in different prefixes?)

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