On Jun 1, 2012, at 12:36 p.m., Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> One problem with macports is that it take a long time to get the >> packages compiled. If I don't a whole system selfupdate and upgrade, >> it can take hours. This is unbearable. I think that there are only >> limited number of Mac OSes. Is possible to add a new feature to allow >> installation from binary directly? > > From `man port`: > -b binary-only mode (build and install from binary archives, ignore > source, > abort if no archive available)
Yup. There have been binary packages for a while. But "only" for default variants on x86-64 Snow Leopard and Lion. vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users