Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 27, 2011, at 04:55, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> And I think we all know that Apple prides itself on producing software that >>> has *few* options. Apple does *not* add an option to iTunes or iOS just

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Titus von Boxberg wrote: >> Unless somebody completes Pallet, the only working GUI would be Port >> Authority. And that is still too technical for most users, since they don't >> want to hear about ports/packages but about apps/software. With icons. Big >> icons. So it would need something mor

Re: [MacPorts] #30981: When trying to build kmymoney4 it hangs on virtuoso

2011-08-27 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Aug 27, 2011, at 4:44 AM, MacPorts wrote: > #30981: When trying to build kmymoney4 it hangs on virtuoso > -+-- > Reporter: linuxstuff@… | Owner: snc@… > Type: defect

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2011-08-27 12:26 , Anders F Björklund wrote: >> This sounds like the discussion about using /usr/local for prefix ? >> (rather than the /opt/local, which everybody confuses with /opt ...) >> It's even more fun, since it's in the default search paths and thus >> will affec

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Am 27.08.2011 um 11:55 schrieb Anders F Björklund: >> >> I guess, then, that this is really an appeal to hide the details since you >> can only get away with doing things "the Apple way" if you also hide the >> majority of the working parts from the end-user. In MacPorts' case, this >> would

Re: [MacPorts] DraftKeywordGuidelines modified

2011-08-27 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-08-26 20:00 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Agreed, these keywords seem to work well. This page could be expanded with > some premade searches for some of these keywords: > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Tickets#Keywords I guess we can delete the other keywords listed there as they have not be

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-08-27 12:26 , Anders F Björklund wrote: > This sounds like the discussion about using /usr/local for prefix ? > (rather than the /opt/local, which everybody confuses with /opt ...) > It's even more fun, since it's in the default search paths and thus > will affect most things afterwards - e

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Right now, we know that MacPorts works, when pulling in all these > dependencies people in this thread are so keen to remove. We could spend a > lot of effort changing a lot of ports to use system dependencies, and find > that it doesn't work for a bunch of ports, and we'v

Re: A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

2011-08-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> And I think we all know that Apple prides itself on producing software that >> has *few* options. Apple does *not* add an option to iTunes or iOS just >> because one power user thinks it might be fun to play with.