<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:51 PM, David Epstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Epstein@warwick.ac.uk" target="_blank">David.Epstein@warwick.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What would happen if I gave one of your commands below, with argument a port that was still installed?</blockquote></div><br>"port select --summary" reports as "none" in that case because the file describing the previously selected option was removed and therefore is not a valid setting. More to the point, if the options do not include a MacPorts-installed one, then you can safely assume you do not have any related port installed. For reference, your summary reports only one setting for which a MacPorts port is installed: llvm 3.5 (mp-llvm-3.5) for llvm.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">"port select" cannot remove ports, nor should it affect any port builds (it may actually do so, but this would be a bug that should be reported against the port trying to use the `port select` symlink instead of an explicit version). It is provided solely for user convenience, and should always be safe with respect to both MacPorts and your system.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span style="font-size:13.6px">What would happen if I gave one of your commands below, with argument a port that was still installed?</span></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The default symlinks would be removed, if they exist. These would only exist if you had done `port select` previously. They do not come from any port, and no port should rely on their existence.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><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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