Re: Re possibility of ports that install pre-built apps (allowed for free distribution)

2022-11-22 Thread Sergey Fedorov
My initial thought was the same: it is convenient to manage software via Macports, at least developer and admin software. Regarding an update mechanism, it is a valid question, but perhaps a solution can be found? For OnyX, this issue is relevant only for the latest OS. As you can see, anything l

Re: Re possibility of ports that install pre-built apps (allowed for free distribution)

2022-11-22 Thread Nils Breunese
I personally like to install software via my package manager (MacPorts) as much as I can. This makes bootstrapping a new machine easy, as well as keeping everything up to date. Therefore in principle I’d like all software I need to be installable via my package manager. It just makes admin life

Re possibility of ports that install pre-built apps (allowed for free distribution)

2022-11-22 Thread Sergey Fedorov
Hi everyone, I have recently made a port that installs OnyX for every system from Tiger onwards: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/16710 Turned out, there is some ambiguity regarding such kind of ports. I don’t particularly get why such ports cannot be allowed, provided building from