Brad, On 15 Mar 2015, at 00:02 , Bradley Giesbrecht <pixi...@macports.org> wrote: > I think we have an opportunity to extend what MacPorts does well to include > relocatable > packages or mdmg packages in a way that third parties can build distributable > packages > untethered from MacPorts and Xcode. Gimp, Kdenlive, digiKam, Octave and many > KDE “things" > would sing praises to MacPorts.
I fully concur with you, but I guess that must be a major undertaking…
Yet it would be really nice to have a feature like that!
Imagine you want to ship, say, one of these KDE games. They are nice and small,
but need the
whole background of KDE4/KF5 libs for them to function - of course.
Instead of shipping KDE or KF5 as a whole with each and every little game, it
would be very
nice to have a means to redistributeably install a meta-port like
kde4-workspace (as discussed
in the before-mentioned parallel thread) which then would include everything
needed for properly
running any KDE4 application.
One would then have to ship only the meta-port mdmv package and the several
mdmg packages for
the whatever KDE4 application.
All these would - IDEALLY - have to be built in such a way that they can
coexist with an
existing MacPorts installation, I suppose. This does not only mean that the
PREFIX shouldn’t
be /opt/local, but merely also that the application’s configuration data needs
to be put in
location(s) separate from the standard ones used by a normal MacPorts install…
Think about
/Library/Launch(Agents|Daemons)
[~]/Library/Application Support
~/Library/Preferences/KDE
~/Library/Caches
~/.config
~/.(cache|config)
and possibly quite a few others.
Since this is even more complicated, for a start I think, one would surely like
to avoid such
a coinstallable approach. However, not having it would make testing pretty hard
(if not even
close to impossible), I am afraid.
Greets,
Marko
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