How to deal with ports-filesystem violation?

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Sun Jun 28 15:54:59 PDT 2015


On Jun 28, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Marko Käning <mk-macports at posteo.net> wrote:

> On 29 Jun 2015, at 00:26 , Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>>> - /Library/Application Support
>>> - /Library/Preferences
>> 
>> Why do they need to do that?
> 
> they do it, because Qt5’s QStandardPaths logic searches in system locations
> for its files, which is why it wouldn’t be able to find anything in /opt/local/Library/...

Is this our Qt5? If so, I think it would be best if we modify it so that it looks inside ${prefix}/Library also. It won't be good if all KF5 ports need to install junk into /Library.

vq


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