On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Craig Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) How much work would it take to have a mode in MacPorts where it only > installs pre-compiled There is already "buildfromsource never" settable in macports.conf. > OTOH, someone posted some information several weeks ago explaining how to > determine if that licence conflict really applies or not. (Involves > inspecting library linkages, as I recall.) I get the impression that our > current policy is quite conservative and that a number of packages (many?) > may actually qualify for binary distribution with some analysis and > verification. > But someone needs to put in that time --- and time is always a problem in a volunteer-run project. If you install a separate MacPorts from source in a different prefix than /opt/local (so people don't have to *avoid* MacPorts conflicts), you can make drag-and-drop installable apps. There are also tools to help make self-contained app bundles, although that requires manual intervention. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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