On 2009-09-17 23:26 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Personally, I prefer to tell the user where the sample files are so > they can make copies if and when they want. Other port authors have > taken recently to copying the sample files for the user.
If the software requires the config file to run at all, it makes sense to copy it in a post-activate phase. Otherwise, there is no need to do this. > I didn't realize there had been a specific decision not to do anything > about configuration files in MacPorts base; I figured it was just > something nobody had gotten to yet. There is an open ticket: > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2365 This has just been ignored as it is on lower priority in my opinion. We also offered this as a Google Summer of Code task the last years as it would be relatively easy and even had students interested in the topic. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev