On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-10-10 16:48:40 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:On 2007-10-10 11:38:51 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:post-activate and post-deactivate don't run on macports installs with'direct' mode.Can't this be changed?Sure ... it's just software. However, I'm not sure it makes sense to have them run in direct mode, since the activate/deactivate phases don't run.Is there any reason? I'd say that in direct mode, when installing a port, it is automatically activated (because the files get availablein $prefix), and when uninstalling it, it is automatically deactivated.
You can think of it conceptually that way, I suppose.What really happens is that activate/deactivate create the links from the place where the software is actually installed by macports to $ {prefix}. activate/deactivate didn't exist until image mode was invented.
Since direct mode installs software directly into ${prefix}, activate/ deactivate don't have any meaning and don't get run (and therefore pre/post activate/deactivate don't run either).
I imagine that activate/deactivate phases that do nothing could be run in direct mode, but I don't see why that would be necessary.
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