/opt/local/macports/software

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 19 janv. 2015 à 10:34, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> a écrit :
> 
> Please Reply All so that the discussion stays on the mailing list.

Hmmm, I did.

> Of note is that MacPorts used to not do this, or rather, using these archives used to be optional, and not the default. Previously, the default was that the contents of /opt/local/var/macports/software was the actual software being installed. Hard links would then be created in the "real" locations. This did not waste disk space, however various new features of OS X interacted badly with this, including Spotlight as of OS X v10.4 and Time Machine as of OS X v10.5, so we were forced to remove the previous mode of operation and insist on using archives instead.

OK.

So maybe we could reconsider the existence of this feature, or at least,
the fact that its mandatory.

> I am not familiar with what other package management systems do.

Well, apt-get and the rest have no such equivalent.  They just deploy
the software, period.  They don't keep a copy at hand, just in case.
And yes, there's no acivate/deactivate (that I know of).