Pierre,

I notice you've been filing tickets about problems installing various ports 
when running on Ubuntu, and I was wondering (and thought others might be 
wondering as well, so I'm Cc'ing the mailing list) what made you decide to run 
MacPorts on Linux. First, I was surprised you succeeded in installing MacPorts 
on Linux at all; I thought that had broken. But more than that, as you're 
discovering, a lot of ports and portgroups are written on the assumption that 
they are running on OS X, or at least Darwin. It will probably take significant 
effort to remove that assumption, and I'm not convinced it's worth the effort, 
since MacPorts is, as suggested by its name, made to run on Mac OS X, not on 
Linux or FreeBSD or other systems. Are none of the existing standard ways of 
getting software onto a Linux system suitable?

-Ryan



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