On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:12 PM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On the other hand, I solved it by copying most of /opt/local/var/macports > > onto an external USB drive and symlinking it back. Huge USB external > drives > > are ridiculously cheap these days. > > I'm pretty sure I tried that, and got slapped on the fingers with > references to security, sandboxing, and the like. > /opt/local itself can't be safely symlinked because various things break when it's not a real directory. Certain parts of things underneath it very much can be without problems; I moved the build tree, sources, and distfiles. (The build tree was the only thing that worried me, and probably trace mode won't work that way --- but then, I'm unlikely to use trace mode on the Air.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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