Hi, ----- On 1 Jun, 2015, at 11:27, Artur Szostak [email protected] wrote:
> At the moment there does not appear to be any defined mechanism for an end > user > to easily select or de-select optional 3rd party repositories. In a ticket I > opened some time ago (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46954), I proposed a > way > to use a Portfile to update the configuration files sources.conf, > archive_sites.conf and pubkeys.conf in a controlled manner, to allow inclusion > of such a 3rd party repository. I would like the Portfile in that ticket to be > added to MacPorts, which I believe would make it much easier for the average > user to include an optional 3rd party repository if they so wish. > > Could we get the core developers to have a look at this solution and get some > consensus on the idea. It would be nice to get some closure on the ticket. > Thanks. I'm in favor of simplifying the inclusion of 3rd party repositories. The Portfile proposed in the ticket is hack, but since we don't have a standard mechanism to do this at the moment, I think we should accept it. The problem I currently see with an automated approach to add a new repository is the order or priority selection. How would you easily decide (in a user interface) whether the new repository supersedes the standard one or not? In the long term, this may become easier when (and if) we finish the SAT-solving based GSoC project currently running, because that would allow us to have multiple versions of the same port provided from different repositories along with proper priorities. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
