On 2015-7-25 09:59 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jul 21, 2015, at 9:04 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>>> ok, so we should probably be copying the plist (instead of symlinking it - >>>> which is a lesson we should have already learned from back in the ‘images’ >>>> days) - and we likely also want something like the above. >>> >>> I don't remember: any reason why we need a copy/symlink there? Why can't we >>> just put the plist there (and only there)? >> >> I believe it was a desire to have everything in $prefix (and maybe to >> facilitate when people have more than one install in different prefixes?) > > But if you have multiple installs, you already have to set > "startupitem_install no" and "startupitem_type none" in macports.conf on all > but one of them. There would be no significant difference if we were to > change MacPorts to install the plist file to its final destination directly, > rather than to put a symlink there.
What we should do is: * Never put anything in /Library/LaunchDaemons at destroot time * If $startupitem_install is true at activate time, hard-link or copy (depending on if the volumes differ) the plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons * Record that we did that so it can be removed at deactivate time - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
