Howdy all! When you get finished playing with your shiny new iPhone, I have a maybe-stupid question about symbolic links: 1) Does MacPorts traverse symlinks in the middle of a path/like/this (where "like" would be a symlink) I found a likely bit of Tcl code, and attempted to set it up to recursively resolve symlinks correctly during path traversal, but was not able to fix the problem. I've been holding off on committing my Python ports -- which permit multiple, parallel versions of MacPorts to co-exist on a system -- but I would rather get this path-traversal thing addressed and then clean up the work-arounds in my ports. A related issue: the binary PKG files that are produced by MacPorts are very dangerous for a similar reason: they don't resolve intermediate symlinks, either. Instead, the installer with *wipe out* the intermediate symlink, replacing it with a "real directory" -- which of course only contains the stuff in that particular package. For example, /etc -- which is a symlink to /private/etc -- is *deleted* and *replaced* by an /etc that only contains an X11 subdir by the emacs binary pkg installer. Ouch! 2) I will try to clean up pkg-creation, unless someone else wants to hit it. Who maintains the PKG binary-installer part of MacPorts? Thanks! - boyd Boyd Waters National Radio Astronomy Observatory middle of nowhere New Mexico USA