Thanks, this is the reply that I was looking for. Sorry, wish I would have
found that first, but I didn't know where to look or what phrase to google
after I had already looked for a while.
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From: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
To: Kenneth Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Prebuilt alternatives
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kenneth Miller <[email protected]>
wrote:
Why does macports insist on using only local builds? I mean, this is a lot like
gentoo, where you download and
(a) Gentoo, like MacPorts, is inspired by *BSD ports which is build from source.
(b) If you are on a supported platform (currently 10.6 / 10.7 Intel x86 /
x86-64) using default variants and with default install path, *and* the port's
license permits binary redistribution, *and* you have not forced source only
with -s or the appropriate macports.conf configuration item, then it will try
to download a binary package.
I would suggest reading http://guide.macports.org sometime.
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brandon s allbery [email protected]
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