MacPorts missing links

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Sep 11, 2016, at 5:57 PM, David Epstein <David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I’m not sure if I am allowed to put my name on some kind of cc list for the ticket, since I’m not intending to work on the problem, but only want to know when it has gone away.

Feel free to Cc yourself on the ticket Mojca linked earlier.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47755

> Possibly I misunderstand, but your earlier emails seem to imply that you feel that the only problem with “select” in MacPorts is the creation of symlinks that are not deleted when uninstalling. However, I do not believe this is the whole story. For example, my command
>> port installed ‘*python*3*’
> 
> was answered
>> “None of the specified ports is installed”.
> 
> Nevertheless the directory /opt/local/etc/select/python3 remains on my system as useless clutter and there is no obvious way to delete it except manually, which ought to be a “No-no". This has nothing to do with symlinks.

This is not really an issue, unless you're a neat freak. The same thing happens with configuration files that are installed in post-activate phases.

vq