On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:34, Peng Yu 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?
This feature was already added in MacPorts 2.0. Here is the announcement: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-announce/2012-May/000021.html However there are restrictions on when it can be used. * OS X 10.6 or 10.7 * prefix /opt/local * applications_dir /Applications * frameworks_dir /opt/local/Library/Frameworks * build_arch x86_64 * default variants * the port must indicate its license * the license of the port must allow distribution * the licenses of all dependencies of the port must be compatible * the buildbot must not have encountered an error while building the package To see what packages we have available: http://packages.macports.org/ To see what our buildbots are doing: http://build.macports.org/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users