id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,port 4228,Add A Deactivate Hook,matthew.c@…,macports-tickets@…,"We have the post-activate hook availible to do setup tasks after the port has been activated. I've talked to jmpp looking for a similar hook for deactivating, and he tells me there isn't one. I propose a ""pre-deactivate"" hook that will allow the ports system to clean up any post install setup its done when the user removes it. The context in which I am working is libraries for Haskell. GHC maintains a list of package which are installed, what modules they provide, and where they are. Normally the install phase (ie: make install) registers the packages, and make uninstall removes them. Since we're putting them into a dest-root first, and then to additionally confound the system, using the image system, this doesn't work. I pass configure flags to not perform the registartoin and take care of it in post-activate. For correctness' sake, it would be nice to be able to tear these down. If you'd check out devel/hs-plugins, you'll see an example of what I'm talking about. That first bit where we scrub out any pre existing versions is a horrible hideous kludge and needs to be fixed. We could move that unregistration stuff into the deactivation hook.",enhancement,closed,Normal,MacPorts 1.9.0,base,,fixed,,jjstickel@… fawkes@… fracai,