On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:25:36AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said: > On May 7, 2009, at 01:05, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > >> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 07:51:10AM +0200, Rainer Müller said: >>> On 2009-05-07 07:41, b...@macports.org wrote: >>>> Revision: 50694 >>>> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/50694 >>>> Author: b...@macports.org >>>> Date: 2009-05-06 22:41:19 -0700 (Wed, 06 May 2009) >>>> Log Message: >>>> ----------- >>>> Remove source/binary only options >>> >>> I think the -b and -s options were quite useful to select if archives >>> should be used or the software should be built from source. How do >>> you >>> think this will work in the future? >> >> The way this branch will work is that the distinction between archives >> and >> what's installed will be gone. In the case of -b, that option won't >> make >> sense anymore since "installed" is having the image file (archive as >> called >> now) available, so you just have to activate the right one. For -s, >> it's >> like now if you disable archive mode, just uninstall the port to build >> from >> source. > > Is there an explanation somewhere about this branch, what goals you're > trying to accomplish, etc.? Is there a ticket or a wiki page?
Yes, that would be #19458: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19458> Bryan _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
