Error after trying to upgrade installed

Mark Hattam mark at dxradio.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 24 00:03:26 PST 2009


On 24 Jan 2009, at 03:46, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>> Personally, I'd like to see direct mode deprecated, and when 10.3  
>> support is
>> officially dropped, it can be removed entirely.  Other than the old
>> performance issues with the large number of hardlinks, I don't see  
>> any
>> advantage to using direct over image mode.  Are there other reasons  
>> for
>> keeping it?
>
> The switch to registry2.0 which is scheduled for 1.8.0 would be a good
> place to drop direct mode as it is mainly implemented in the
> registry/receipt handling. But that means there would be no  
> deprecation
> period.
>
> But as we tend to discuss development stuff on the macports-users  
> list,
> there is the opportunity to ask our users: How many of you do still  
> use
> direct mode and for what reasons?
>
> Rainer

If you mean the end users ... I had to go and actually search in the  
documentation to find out what "direct mode" is.
http://guide.macports.org/#internals.images
which is the only "hit" for "direct mode".

Which I think answers your question ...

Mark


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