On Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 08:56:50 PDT Tim Kientzle wrote:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:34 AM, David Forsythe wrote:
Separating ports and packages is silly, because they need to coexist.
Like gcooper pointed out, ports should be using the pkg tools to build
and install packages.
I've been impressed with how MacPorts handles this.
If I understand correctly, you can specify a package you
want and the options you want with it and the system will
download a pre-built package with those options
(if one exists) or pull the source and build the port,
all transparently.
Even better, the central repository sees all of these
requests, so can prioritize which option sets are most popular.
Would that include any options specified in make.conf?
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