Guido Soranzio wrote:
> I meant a simple hosting infrastructure outside of the subversion
> repository where the submitters and the committers could upload and
> share their precompiled packages/archives: we already have the
> archive mode and the support for RPM.

Sure, but it doesn't integrate with MacPorts and installs outside the
registry. So it will rather screw up your existing installation.

> "DPLight" and the http://packages.opendarwin.org were naive
> solutions but they could greatly help the committers to avoid
> building themselves the lengthy dependencies which weren't of
> their particular interest.

Yes, as far as I know, it was planned to integrate dp-light into each of
the packages in order to register it properly with the registry. But
that never happened because it required to include nearly the whole base.

Rainer
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