On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kenneth Miller <kennethadammil...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Why does macports insist on using only local builds? I mean, this is a lot > like gentoo, where you download and > (a) Gentoo, like MacPorts, is inspired by *BSD ports which is build from source. (b) If you are on a supported platform (currently 10.6 / 10.7 Intel x86 / x86-64) using default variants and with default install path, *and* the port's license permits binary redistribution, *and* you have not forced source only with -s or the appropriate macports.conf configuration item, then it will try to download a binary package. I would suggest reading http://guide.macports.org sometime. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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