On Thursday October 08 2015 17:44:37 Clemens Lang wrote: > See, that's where you're wrong. MacPorts actively tries to NOT be a build > system, > but a package manager. That's why we focus on getting things done the right > way > and ensuring the tuple (os, port, variants) always behaves the same and builds > the same way.
We may not agree on the term, but it *is* a system that also allows to build (and install) a variety of packages/source projects with a unified syntax. > Regarding your Linux endeavours… maybe Linuxbrew would fulfill your needs? I Never heard of it before, but if it's like HomeBrew on OS X it'll probably fulfil my needs just like that whatever-you-call-it :) Or if it's like Gentoo Prefix and pkgsrc, it just won't work on Debian and Ubuntu. > don't see the manpower needed to support MacPorts on Linux appear anytime > soon. I think I've been clear enough that I'm not asking for that, on the contrary. R. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
