Ryan Schmidt writes:
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 13:02, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>
>> Ken Cunningham writes:
>>
>>> due to a weird idiosyncracy, if set autoconf.cmd you need to specify the
>>> depends.build stuff after that line.
>>>
>>> No idea if this can ever be fixed. You just have to "know" this.
First let me say I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8.
Recently, given the overall Apple direction for MacOS I stopped and asked
myself “Why am I doing this?”.
I started using Mint Linux on VirtualBox and ported a couple of the simpler
apps I use.
Mint has come a long way and runs very well on a VB
On Feb 19, 2019, at 07:13, S. L. Garwood wrote:
> So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”.
Same reason as always: to help you install software on your Mac. If you prefer
installing software in a VM running a different OS, by all means do so, but
it's not the same thing.
Hello,
A little embarrassing, but I need some direction. I realize macports user
support does not really exactly support the port I need (ffmpeg), I have a
feeling someone reading this will know what's up from the brief details I can
provide. Please allow me to describe my situation, and where
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Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2019, at 07:13, S. L. Garwood wrote:
>
> > So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”.
>
> Same reason as always: to help you install software on your Mac. If
> you prefer installing software in a VM running a different OS, by all
> means do so,
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, macpo...@raf.org wrote:
The only reason I use macos at all is because it's unixy. I spend most
of my time in full screen X11 using many programs and languages from
macports. Even without X11, macports makes it easy to install and
upgrade lots of software that would otherwi
On 19 Feb 2019, at 8:13, S. L. Garwood via macports-users wrote:
So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”
Because running the tools it provides in a VM is a grotesque waste of
RAM and disk space and puts a wall up between tools I want to use
occasionally and the UI where I
Dear Chilli,
Welcome to MacPorts.
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 01:36, chilli.names...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> A little embarrassing, but I need some direction. I realize macports user
> support does not really exactly support the port I need (ffmpeg),
We don't have any official user support :)
We have j
Like Mojca says, it’s doable!
Making these new ports run on the older systems is actually pretty easy in most
cases. Sometimes, not so easy. Tends to be the same few problems, so we made
the macports-legacy-support support system that tries to make it as seamless as
possible.
Snow Leopard can
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