On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Luke Browell wrote: > I don't mind waiting for Mac Ports to build from source on the latest > packages. But why not harness all this processing power and offer > users the option to let the build be automatically uploaded back to > MacPorts or better still be hashed and offered peer-to-peer to other > MacPorts users who can choose a 'turbo' binary option.
The security implications of installing arbitrary binary packages from random untrusted users are, uh, very alarming to me. Besides, I can't imagine that a shortage of compute power is the largest obstacle to having binary packages (which I, too, would love to see in MacPorts.) Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
