reasons for `port provides` not working?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Monday October 10 2016 18:05:19 René J.V. Bertin wrote:

>Is there a good reason why action_provides (in port) does a `file normalize`?

Actually, doing that must make it impossible to trace which port installs a given symlink. While it can be interesting to know to whom the target belongs, that's not always the question (on the contrary, I'd say).

R.