<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Cal</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">You are misinterpreting what Rene is saying. He is not trying to garner support for a Linux based Ports system, he is just sharing - after all he did state 'pet project' in the title and also states very clearly that "...<span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">this is not an announcement that I'll be forking off MacPorts to begin a fully supported Linux variant! :)"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I personally disagree with blindly installing a pre-built package from any type of package managing system. Simply because in my experience I do not trust a package I do not build myself. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Several things bring me to this opinion...different hardware types, whether specific variants are used, and yes, even the skill level of the person building the package...because simply knowing how to run configure/make/make install may not be enough to properly build a package that can be distributed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I prefer compiling myself...most newer systems can do this a lot quicker now, and with proper patching done I have run into very little issues...with most issues being trivial to fix myself.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Just my $0.02</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Clemens Lang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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----- On 8 Oct, 2015, at 16:57, René J.V. Bertin <a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> For me, MacPorts is just an additional distribution system (and more of a build<br>
> system) for certain things that I would otherwise build "by hand".<br>
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</span>See, that's where you're wrong. MacPorts actively tries to NOT be a build system,<br>
but a package manager. That's why we focus on getting things done the right way<br>
and ensuring the tuple (os, port, variants) always behaves the same and builds<br>
the same way. Please note that this tuple does not include "already installed<br>
dependencies" or "stuff that's already in /usr/lib or /usr/local".<br>
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> That's also why I've made some changes to relax the principle of building as<br>
> much as possible against libraries provided by MacPorts (into the opposite<br>
> principle, in fact).<br>
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</span>That's not the idea that most MacPorts developers currently have. It may suit<br>
your expectations, but you're on your own.<br>
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Regarding your Linux endeavours… maybe Linuxbrew would fulfill your needs? I<br>
don't see the manpower needed to support MacPorts on Linux appear anytime<br>
soon.<br>
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Clemens Lang<br>
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