If I understand correctly: On Sep 7, 2025, at 13:17, David Gilman wrote: > > It's possible to disable Gatekeeper/Xprotect checks on processes > descended from the terminal. See > https://nexte.st/docs/installation/macos/#gatekeeper
these are steps the user performs manually to exclude Terminal from gatekeeper to speed it up, and: > This is something I've seen slow down the launch of MacPorts installed > binaries. Would it be acceptable for port, maybe as part of reclaim, > to check to see if the user can disable Gatekeeper? Example code to do > so is being added to rust's cargo here > https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/15908 this is code that determines if gatekeeper will slow things down and if so prints a message telling the user they could do the above manually to speed it up. So nothing you're proposing would change the content of the binaries we install nor would MacPorts attempt to disable gatekeeper. It's just about informing the user. Have you already verified that performing the steps in the first link results in a speed up? Is that speed up seen during the process of compiling a port from source, or installing a port from a binary, or running the resulting software?
