Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Mar 21 21:23:44 UTC 2017


On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> Never assume people will read instructions. How often do we get people 
> who cut and paste the boilerplate at the end of a failed build that 
> tells them to check the build log, and mail it here asking what they 
> should do?

Which reminds me: would it be possible to symlink to the log file from 
somewhere in /tmp?  It's a real PITA doing a C&P with a path that wraps 
lines...  Yes, I'm an old fogey, and use 80 columns...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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