On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > >> On May 18, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> On 19 May 2016 at 00:25, Eric A. Borisch wrote: >>> If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you could >>> set: >>> >>> portarchivetype txz >>> >>> in macports.conf; on some of the big clang/llvm archives this is ~2x >>> improvement... >> >> But in current implementation that probably means that all the >> packages have to be compiled locally? > > Yes. Which will probably bring in build-only dependencies that weren't > necessary before. Which will remove some of the space savings. So this is > probably not a good change for users to make. > > Instead, we should switch the pre-built binaries to txz, as we've though > about doing before.
Indeed, which is where I hoped the discussion would go. ;) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
