On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Chris Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hmm, I did not realise this. I thought that it was the opposite way
> around, so only files explicitly registered are made visible. Whats the
> reason it doesn't work this way ? Some technical limitation or by choice
> (for some reason I don't yet see) ?


For one example, MacPorts has neither control over Apple-provided files nor
guaranteed lists of such files for all OS X versions. Even if you whitelist
e.g. /usr/lib/*.dylib, what stops Apple from burying a reference to
something somewhere else in one?

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