<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:26 PM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">>I think you can rely on that for maybe 95% of things, but the remaining<br>
>5%... I've had to help people fix things afterward.<br>
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</span>Do you remember what kind of issue? I'm curious to know under what conditions "base" cares whether supposedly installed files are actually present when you do a deactivate? (Not that I ever pushed this to the limit...)</blockquote></div><br>I was apparently headed into a brainfog when I wrote that.. recovered today but catching up on stuff. And I think it was actually the opposite situation that was happening: someone tried to restore /opt/local from a backup, found that there were port components not under /opt/local missing (notably the symlinks into launchd's directories), and a deactivate/reactivate fixed.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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