Troubles installing ports with Macports 2.3.1

"René J.V. Bertin" rjvbertin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 15:02:43 PDT 2014


On Jul 06, 2014, at 23:30, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> I do not always understand the reasoning Canonical applies. But they use Debian as their upstream, so in this case that's where the policy comes from.

That's not exactly true, AFAIK they evolve independently (= much faster) nowadays and just use a compatible layout and packaging system. The main reason I moved from Debian to Ubuntu, btw.

> Oh, and Debian uses GnuTLS instead, btw.

Well, that doesn't seem to solve much :) -
"gnutls" is not distributable because its license "gpl" conflicts with license "OpenSSL" of dependency "openssl"



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