Re: How to discontinue ports completely (py26 deprecation) ...

2016-08-12 Thread Fred Wright
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Chris Jones wrote: > On 11/08/16 20:40, Fred Wright wrote: [...] > > Well, leaving something alone that's working just fine is hardly much of a > > maintenance burden. > > On the other hand, whats the rationale for keeping 2.6, given 2.7 is the > official upstream production v

Re: How to discontinue ports completely (py26 deprecation) ...

2016-08-12 Thread Chris Jones
On 11/08/16 20:40, Fred Wright wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Fred Wright wrote: I don't consider Python 2.6 to be "cruft". Developers need many versions of Python installed for testing, and that includes any packages that are also nee

Re: port install v port mpkg | mdmg

2016-08-12 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, On 2016-08-10 17:23, Craig Treleaven wrote: > Is it possible for a port to take different actions depending on > whether the user has initiated ‘port install’ v. 'port mpkg’ (or > ‘port mdmg’)? Unfortunately, no, as all phases can be run individually. So up to the destroot phase, there is