Re: completely OT

2019-04-14 Thread James Linder
Hi > > I have a mid 2011 iMac. I setup a SSD on usb3 over thunderbolt. > All good EXCEPT that it wont boot. Will boot on the usb2 ports but they are > slower than usb3. > I'm looking for a pointer or advice on how to boot on diskA say the internal > disk, but run (root on) diskB > I can't fin

Re: Rust restored

2019-04-14 Thread g5pw
> On 14 Apr 2019, at 19:24, dan d. > wrote: > > The output of port info fd is all I know as to the availability of fd. Oh, sorry, apparently it’s already in Macports :) -- Aljaž Srebrnič a.k.a g5pw My public key: https://g5pw.me/key Key fingerp

Re: Query: variant +docs or +doc?

2019-04-14 Thread Michael Dickens
I'd hope that there's a way to robustly move from one variant to the other without the user having to engage with "port" to do so. I would hope that we can avoid forcing the user to explicitly deactivate one and activate the other variant. I can think of a way to do this where we would end up w

Re: Query: variant +docs or +doc?

2019-04-14 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
How would that work with regard to "port upgrade" of installed ports? Would (for those ports presently using the one chosen to be changed) both be accepted for compatibility? Or some other magic? Or would people end up having to explicitly deactivate the installed one, and install the new ver

Query: variant +docs or +doc?

2019-04-14 Thread Michael Dickens
See < https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58338 > with title "lots-o-ports: decide on common variant name to build documentation: +docs or +doc". There are approximately 128 ports that use +doc or +docs as the variant to build documentation. Of those, approximately 75 use +docs, while the rest --

Re: Rust restored

2019-04-14 Thread dan d.
The output of port info fd is all I know as to the availability of fd. On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, g5pw wrote: > > On 11 Apr 2019, at 19:55, dan d. > > wrote: > > > > > > A couple of weeks ago there was discussion of rust failing when required > > for ports. > > > > An ex

Re: Rust restored

2019-04-14 Thread g5pw
> On 11 Apr 2019, at 19:55, dan d. > wrote: > > > A couple of weeks ago there was discussion of rust failing when required for > ports. > > An example is fd which I had tried to upgrade. On a whim I tried today and > it worked. > > There is a new to me installati

Re: fluidsynth.. qsynth?- Macports

2019-04-14 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday April 14 2019 08:46:16 Mojca Miklavec wrote: >Dear Stan, >to package it. In any case I had absolutely no idea how to use it when >I tried it on a linux box, so I assume I didn't even try. That's another way of saying the interface isn't very intuitive ;) >- if Renee has some code, we

completely OT

2019-04-14 Thread James Linder
Hi I have a mid 2011 iMac. I setup a SSD on usb3 over thunderbolt. All good EXCEPT that it wont boot. Will boot on the usb2 ports but they are slower than usb3. I'm looking for a pointer or advice on how to boot on diskA say the internal disk, but run (root on) diskB I can't find a thunderbol