On 7 Nov 2012, at 13:49, Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

>> After having a go with homebrew I decided that macport's use of /opt/local 
>> is significantly less likely to screw up my system, so I am now quite firmly 
>> on the macport side of the camp.  One good thing homebrew has though is the 
>> fact it only requires the command line tools, not the whole Xcode 
>> installation.  Is a macports -Xcode +CLT ever going to happen?
> 
> Some packages provided by MacPorts are actually xcode projects; you can't 
> them without xcode installed.

Which packages if I can ask?  because they might be packages that I do not want 
nor need.
> 
> Some packages also build differently based on the version of xcode installed; 
> you also can't install them without xcode present.

How so?  I would have imagined it's the CLT that make the difference, after all 
they mast be installed for macports.

BW

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