On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> I don't see why we need to honor their local setting for the pre-built >> packages. If they want a package frompackages.macports.org, they get it as a >> tbz2. Why waste the disk space keeping 2 types? > > Because we put the tgz type in a lot of people's macports.conf, if I'm not > mistaken, as the old default prior to merging in images-and-archives branch. >
That does not explain why MacPorts has to use that type when getting packages from the server. Why can't MacPorts handle getting tbz2 archives from a server and building tgz archives locally at the same time? -Bill _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
