On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does Macports generate libraries that follow the 1970-era linking > strategy? Because MacPorts is ports of programs for other platforms which don't have frameworks... and do have politics (for example: Debian's strict adherence to their package guidelines amounts to political interference that has caused problems for users in the past several years, notably with regards to availability of mate-desktop but there are other examples... like google's monolithic software that you mentioned, where Google packages its own software for Debian so they don't have to deal with the distribution package politics). And we are not in a position to rewrite/reimplement stuff into a frameworks-based model, if upstream hasn't already done it. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
