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Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Thu Oct 11 08:06:24 PDT 2007


On 2007-10-10 16:48:40 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On 2007-10-10 11:38:51 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> post-activate and post-deactivate don't run on macports installs with
>>> 'direct' mode.
>>
>> Can't this be changed?
>
> Sure ... it's just software.
>
> However, I'm not sure it makes sense to have them run in direct
> mode, since the activate/deactivate phases don't run.

Is there any reason? I'd say that in direct mode, when installing a
port, it is automatically activated (because the files get available
in $prefix), and when uninstalling it, it is automatically deactivated.

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