On Nov 26, 2007, at 13:43, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

I've recently discovered a great Linux distro, which strives to package all quantitative open source applications: the Quantian, by the Debian pro and well-known quant Dirk Eddelbuettel:

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

I wonder what would it take to mirror it as a blob of MacPorts? Basically, all these apps have ports -- and a large subset certainly does. So one can simply create a port "quantian" which would simply depend on all those ports already available and build them --correct?

I doubt it.