Hi there, I use macports fot about 1.5 years now. Most things work great and MP has some lovely features like variants. However, it appears quite often that some ports are broken for various different reasons. E.g. the quartz variant of gtk2 lead to crashes in gimp2 and the bug was not fixed for several months.
I know that maintaining two branches is probably more work, but in contrast to most linux distros, using macports I cannot be sure that a port works if I install/upgrade it. (Of course you cannot be 100% sure using e.g. ubuntu/debian either, but at least those package have been tested for some time). In terms of stability the single macports branch feels a bit like the "unstable" branch in debian. To make things even more annoying is the fact that there is no _straightforward_ way to downgrade to a previous version of the port. (I know that there is a way, but its not as easy as with apt-get for example). Has maintaing two branches been already discussed on the list? cheers, Janosch _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
