Good point. And I just updated postgresql-jdbc, which depends on binary-only openjdk*... :-|
> Le 7 août 2020 à 08:59, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > >> On Aug 5, 2020, at 07:52, Georges Martin wrote: >> >> If MacPorts starts to mix both approaches, I worry we may end up having >> (open source) packages depending on closed source, binary packages. > > We already have that, by necessity. For example, php-excel is an open source > php module that depends on the closed-source libxl library, for which we have > a port. php-oracle, an open source php module distributed as part of php > itself, depends on the closed-source oracle-instantclient library, for which > we have a port.
