trying to understand the --no-exec activate option (on by default?)

Vincent Habchi vince at macports.org
Thu Nov 29 10:28:48 UTC 2018


> That warning only prints during an install or upgrade (when the runtime dep is not active).
> 
> The default for this option should be OFF IMHO; there are also ports which do important things in the post-activate; the lldb ports remind the user that an executable needs to be code-signed for instance. Evidently this has to be done each time the port is (re)activated.

Why not use the “note” keyword for that? Just wondering (hoping that makes sense)

Vincent



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