Re: install a por

2014-09-28 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 27 09:53:02, allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Generaly, I find the precompiled defaults quite sensible in most of the packaging systems, having subpackages/flavors/variants etc. it surprises me that you always need to

Re: install a por

2014-09-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: I must be missing your point. What's a linux-like package system as opposed to a build-from-port system? Every package built from a port. How does using options/variants of a port make the resulting package less usefull (then

Re: install a por

2014-09-27 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 23 10:57:22, allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Have a look at OpenBSD's pkg_add(1) pkg is great if you can get away with defaults for everything. I always find myself forced into ports Putting back the context that you

Re: install a por

2014-09-27 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Generaly, I find the precompiled defaults quite sensible in most of the packaging systems, having subpackages/flavors/variants etc. it surprises me that you always need to compile the port yourself. Linux-like package systems

Re: install a por

2014-09-23 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 05 16:48:44, allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote: Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of

Re: install a por

2014-09-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Have a look at OpenBSD's pkg_add(1) pkg is great if you can get away with defaults for everything. I always find myself forced into ports -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates

install a por

2014-09-05 Thread mattias
how exactly i install a specific port? e.g perl ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: how exactly i install a specific port? e.g perl MacPorts probably has the best documentation around for an OpenSource project: https://guide.macports.org RTFM and the ask specific questions when you have any problems or issues or

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread mattias
ah so easy Alejandro Imass skrev den 2014-09-05 22:21: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se mailto:m...@mjw.se wrote: how exactly i install a specific port? e.g perl MacPorts probably has the best documentation around for an OpenSource project:

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:23 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: ah so easy Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have on your Mac. It's very easy, friendly and robust. ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread mattias
i'm a old mac os user i'm back on osx because i hate win8 Alejandro Imass skrev den 2014-09-05 22:25: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:23 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se mailto:m...@mjw.se wrote: ah so easy Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have on your Mac. It's

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Dave Horsfall
thought that install a por was Spanish spam ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread mattias
, and yeah, the Mac beats it hands down. Top marks to the creators! -- Dave, who thought that install a por was Spanish spam ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:27 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: i'm a old mac os user i'm back on osx because i hate win8 Alejandro Imass skrev den 2014-09-05 22:25: Nice. Windows blows so bad man is disgusting. I was a big Linux fan until I played with FreeBSD and was hooked. Then I only wished

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote: Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have on your Mac. It's very easy, friendly and robust. I've used FreeBSD's port system for ages, and yeah,

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Alejandro Imass wrote: Yeah MacPorts is the most awesome piece of software you will ever have on your Mac. It's very easy,

Re: install a por

2014-09-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: [...] MacPorts is based on the *BSD pkgsrc/ports system, but greatly improved; it took years for BSD ports to come up with a reasonable way to handle upgrading ports, and `port upgrade outdated` still handles cases