Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I initially wasn't sure if this is what was meant, and it now seems like it 
> isn't, but I would not support an effort to integrate with package managers 
> that compete with MacPorts for installing normal programs and libraries, for 
> example Gentoo Portage or FreeBSD Ports or Debian APT.

That is very unfortunate coming from PortMgr, since both MacPorts and Mac OS X 
really needs a package manager. I know that the term is confused, and that 
Gentoo also only had .tbz2 archives, but it seems like you don't want to 
support either of pkg_add (pkgng) or something like apt-get (deb/rpm) ?

But maybe it's just confusion, and we're talking about importing and converting 
source recipes from other ports systems and that you don't want to convert the 
packaging scripts for FreeBSD or Debian... Then I guess it's just the usual 
confusion of what a "package" actually means here (i.e. not a binary).

--anders

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