where does macports installs programs?

[Ryan Ware]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
>
> > I have wiped the root5 installation and re-installed and for what I can
> see the two have the exact same root5 installed.... I was going to
> re-install python27 too, but there are a lot of dependencies so it might be
> a pretty complicated business... is there a way to do the uninstall without
> breaking these dependencies? I am going to check if there is any difference
> in the python27 installation first....
> >
>
> I doubt you need to reinstall python27. In general, if a port installed,
> it installed successfully. Builds are supposed to be repeatable and not
> vary based on circumstances.
>

Are there cases where the port can be installed without success?  If so,
what are those corner cases?

I for one am quite happy that builds are repeatable.  I've lived in
environments where builds weren't necessarily repeatable and it
was...problematic.

Ryan
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