/opt/local/macports/software

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> ----- On 19 Jan, 2015, at 22:20, Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net wrote:
>> ... but you're right, cal fixed it and it's been released (I though the fix was
>> sitting on trunk still, but it made Macports 2.3.0)
> 
> I am currently not aware of any problems with /opt or /opt/local being a symlink
> except for the port provides thing. I did test trace mode with a symlinked
> prefix to make sure it works and I consider anything that breaks this behavior a
> bug I'd be willing to fix.

cool, that's good to know.

I'm still looking forward to when we run trace mode all the time by default.

> I even wrote a draft implementation of a fix for port provides, but nobody
> picked up on it, finished it and committed it (or provided a commit-ready patch).
> If somebody wants to do that, the implementation is somewhere in the -dev mailing
> list archives.

yeah, I had some time to look at it when I first posted to the -dev list about it, but no one responded and I haven't had time to mess with it since then.

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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