Re: How add variant when upgrading octave

On May 16, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> Currently installed and active is: >> >> octave @3.8.2_18+atlas+gcc48+glgui >> >> This is flagged as having available upgrade to 4.0.2_0, so I executed... >> >> sudo port upgrade octave

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 06:38:24PM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: > > If you delete those archives you can no longer deactivate and > > re-activate a port. In addition to the use case above, this is also > > helpful when one of the files installed by the port was corrupted > > for some reason

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:14:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports > > symlink-ed on an external hard drive ? > > I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources > symlinked as well as .../software and

Re: port reclaim use

Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:21:09PM -0700, list_em...@icloud.com wrote: > I hate giant blobs on my hard disk that don't do anything, so I'm > wondering if > > port reclaim > > is a safe and effective way of reducing the 13.7 GB size of my > MacPorts installation. As far as I know port

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Nicolas Martin wrote: > Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports symlink-ed > on an external hard drive ? I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources symlinked as well as .../software

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

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

Getting rid of port binaries in /software

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... On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt > wrote: > >> On

Re: gcc-6

I have an unfounded opinion about this: > Naturally a hypothetical gcc6 port that only provides a Fortran compiler > would take less space and less time to build than one that also provides C, > C++, and Java compilers. I’m not an expert on this at all, but from what I understand the only

Re: gcc-6

> On May 17, 2016, at 6:07 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > On a related note: would it be very hard to set up the gcc port(s) such that > users can indicate which languages they wish to use the compiler for? IIRC > gcc's configure script allows you to do just that via an

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

> On May 17, 2016, at 5:38 PM, Nicolas Martin > wrote: > >> >> On May 17, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: >>> I have looked for real answers regarding this question