Failed cleanup

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Sat Jan 10 13:26:00 PST 2015


On Jan 10, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:05 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 
>> But how about moving the task to a background process?
> 
> MacPorts does not currently have any background processes; adding one would be a major change.

This would also only be useful if there were something else MacPorts could be doing at the same time in the foreground. I think it would be confusing to add some sort of vacuum process that continued running after the main port(1) process exited.

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