On Nov 11, 2011, at 14:51, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> What about GUI programs? What about manpages or >> perl modules or php modules etc. that people sometimes ask about? > > That's outside the scope of what we're trying to do here. > > We're only after the programs people would like to execute from $PATH but > cannot be found.
Today, that's what we're after. Other days, we're after perl modules: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-May/024426.html Other times, we want to know what port provides a certain header or library we don't have on our systems that's causing some port to fail to build because someone forgot a dependency. > I'd say simply mimic Ubuntu. We can then add further features later. > > It'd be nice if we don't have to manipulate a user's shell script more > than adding the sourcing of a script somewhere; either way, if we stick to > something similar to other distributions (at least to start with) more > people will be familiar with the behavior. What do Ubuntu or other distributions do, and how do they do them? I haven't used them. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
