> On Oct 3, 2017, at 15:14, db <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 Oct 2017, at 17:30, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Please see <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516#comment:19> > > You could add it to https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source .
I do not want this in the official documentation. We should not officially advocate MacPorts using its own ports as dependencies, because that can cause problems. Once we get automatic distfile mirroring back online it will be a nonissue. > Is it safe to just recompile MP overwriting the package installation? Yes.
