<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Al Varnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alvarnell@mac.com" target="_blank">alvarnell@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2qm" class="a3s aXjCH m1575eee565d36b33">Sorry for my ignorance here, but why do we need MacPorts to maintain a port when there is are perfectly good installers available on GitHub <<a href="https://osxfuse.github.io" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osxfuse.github.io</a><div style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px"> </div>> including a developer release of version 3.5.1 posted close to a week ago?</div></blockquote></div><br>The same can be said for a fair chunk of the software in MacPorts. Some of us prefer not to have to chase down and (possibly build and) install every single piece of software ourselves. That's the *point* of MacPorts.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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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