Zfs & MacPorts

[Rainer Müller]

Charles Darwin wrote:
> As of now it is not possible to boot from zfs so I thought if I have  
> something like grep (OK, bad example) installed through ports that  
> might cause problem during the start up since it's part of Darwin.
> Then I guess my question is; is any part of Darwin (except of course  
> xnu) involved in startup process and/or does it matter if they do?

No part of MacPorts is involved in booting. MacPorts is only used in
your shell if you exported PATH in your .profile.

Rainer