On 2018-4-9 10:20 , Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2018-04-09 01:20, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2018-4-9 08:43 , Rainer Müller wrote: >>> This handles ports that create .plist files via startupitem.* or the new >>> startupitems. However, there are also ports that install custom .plist >>> file to ${destroot}/Library/Launch*. Some ports even do that >>> unconditionally. >> >> Ports that do this should set 'startupitem.create no' and >> 'startupitem.type launchd', plus whatever other variables like >> startupitem.name are needed based on what they called their plist. > > I found no port in or ports tree that does it that way.
That's because you can't do it with the released version of base. > As far as I can see, 'startupitem.create no' is not required right now > and not used. I do not think Portfile authors will understand why it > would be necessary. We should find a solution without it. You don't have to actually set it to no, that's the default, so you just don't set it to yes. - Josh