macports-users Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1: Re: phinze/homebrew-cask on the same system like MacPorts

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Wed Dec 18 08:14:26 PST 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:00:51AM -0500, Eric Gallager wrote:
> Sorry for the necro-bump, but the other day I decided to check up on
> what was new in Homebrew-land, and it turns out that `brew cask`
> actually lets you install MacPorts itself as of
> https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/commit/9ab24161369f1652604f780df0e58733c11889c0
> 
> This was the pull request for it:
> https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/pull/1845
> 
> Do we want to support people installing MacPorts in this way?

This doesn't ensure Xcode and the command line tools are installed and
the license has been accepted, but other than that it's really just a
headless way of installing our .pkg, so I fail to see what's different
in this case.

Other than that, I honestly don't care.

-- 
Clemens Lang



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