<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Arno Hautala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arno@alum.wpi.edu" target="_blank">arno@alum.wpi.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Clemens Lang <<a href="mailto:cal@macports.org">cal@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. If you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's system python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if its MacPorts python, well you get the idea)<br>
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</div>I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python!<br>
Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?"</blockquote><div><br></div><div>They *used* to consider that a feature, and are still slowly changing things over; they've learned the hard way why nobody else works that way.</div>
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