While the hooks are probably the *right* way to do this, it occurs to me 

that our other packages are not nearly as responsible and perhaps 

MacFUSE does not need to be either. That is, none of our packages shut 

themselves down before being removed (Apache comes to mind, but any of 

the daemons are examples).

The "port" command generally handles installation (which includes adding 

hooks for activation) and deinstallation (which includes removing those 

hooks), but often does not include running the hooks. In some packages, 

the port command finishes with a message like "you may want to run X to 

activate this package" (the mysql port comes to mind).

So, if that's the only blocker, I think you're in good shape to do just 

as good a job with MacFUSE as we do with other ports. Adding 

pre/post-activation hooks could be viewed as a separate task to improve 

the MP project as a whole.