Ryan Schmidt writes: > On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Sean Farley wrote: > >> Lawrence Velázquez writes: >> >>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>>> I understand the proposal, but I don't agree that we should implement it. >>> >>> It does seem like it would introduce a great deal of complexity to address >>> what is clearly (to me, at least) an antipattern (using variants to select >>> build options). >> >> The complexity is much greater, indeed. And not something I wish to >> implement in tcl. > > It's not just the complexity of modifying base. You're proposing that instead > of each port being installed to the same /opt/local prefix, each port would > be installed to its own prefix. This would probably require rebuilding all > ports, not to mention manually editing most of the portfiles (to change how > they find their dependencies), of which there are about 10,000 at this point. > I just don't see how anybody's ever going to have the time to do that.
Yes, might as well start over at that point :-) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
