apache2 location

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Feb 28 15:07:02 PST 2009


On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:57, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

>> This comes back to my above comment then, why does  
>> "destroot.violate_mtree" even exist?  MacPorts expressly forbids  
>> outside of /opt, strongly discourages installs right into prefix,  
>> just make it a steadfast rule.
>
> Some ports install userland gui apps into /Applications/Macports or  
> something like it. I don't use them but a path like that needs to  
> be and probably is in mtree.

As you can see in "man porthier", /Applications/MacPorts is listed  
there, is one of the standard directories ports may install into, and  
is not flagged as an mtree violation during install, even though it  
is outside of ${prefix}.



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