<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Chris Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1kz" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">It is correct that all others I am familiar with do not require the user to effectively have two copies (albeit one compressed) on their system, the installed one and the original install media (whether that be tar, rpm, deb or whatever).<br></div></blockquote></div><br>It is also correct that all other package systems you're familiar with never have to build locally from source.<br><div><br>Possibly if you can get away with always operating in binary mode then we could re-download missing archives from <a href="http://packages.macports.org">packages.macports.org</a>, If you can't (and there are lots of reasons why things might not be be prebuilt for you) then you really want those archives.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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