The MacPorts project is pleased to announce that prebuilt archives for
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion are now available for many ports, and will be
used automatically when installing.
A prebuilt archive cannot always be used, for a number of reasons:
* Our archives are built only for the default prefix (/opt/local), so
if MacPorts is installed in a custom prefix, it will not download
them. This also applies to applications_dir (/Applications/MacPorts)
and frameworks_dir (${prefix}/Library/Frameworks).
* We only build archives for the default variants of each port.
* Many ports do not yet list license information.
* Some ports have a license that does not allow for distribution of
binaries, or have a license that conflicts with the license of a
dependency in a way that prevents such distribution.
- Josh