On Thursday April 27 2017 11:37:41 Rainer Müller wrote:
>No, this is not true at all. You can install a .deb or .rpm without
>having a corresponding local index. In case of Debian, installing
>packages is even fully separated in two tools (dpkg and apt).
You're right, I forgot about standalone .d
On 2017-04-26 19:11, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday April 26 2017 17:32:58 Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> source, but skip the compilation with pre-compiled archives. These
>> are not real packages, as they cannot be installed standalone
>> without a source ports tree.
>
> Hmm? You mean the Po
On Wednesday April 26 2017 17:32:58 Rainer Müller wrote:
> source, but skip the compilation with pre-compiled archives. These are
> not real packages, as they cannot be installed standalone without a
> source ports tree.
Hmm? You mean the Portfiles? That's not really different from Debian and
pr
On 2017-04-26 14:15, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> I really really don't think a PortGroup is the right way to do
>> this. This should be done in base, with proper support of creating
>> multiple packages from a single build and then optionally
>> installing some of them, more like FreeBSD's ports doe
On Wednesday April 26 2017 13:32:47 Clemens Lang wrote:
Hi,
> I really really don't think a PortGroup is the right way to do this. This
> should
> be done in base, with proper support of creating multiple packages from a
> single
> build and then optionally installing some of them, more like F
> > Those are all files that are only required when using port "A"
> > as a dependency for *building* other software but not as a dependency
> > for running that dependent software.
>
> The keyword here is "only". It is not unusual to install a library
> (and its header files, and its pkgconfig fi
Hi,
- On 23 Apr, 2017, at 15:54, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to draw some attention to a prototype implementation of a PortGroup I
> wrote for creating "dev" ports, akin to Debian/Ubuntu's "-dev" packages:
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52713
I really really do
On Apr 23 15:54:07, rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to draw some attention to a prototype implementation of a PortGroup
> I wrote for creating "dev" ports, akin to Debian/Ubuntu's "-dev" packages:
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52713
> I've been using this for a while now and find it pa
Hi,
I'd like to draw some attention to a prototype implementation of a PortGroup I
wrote for creating "dev" ports, akin to Debian/Ubuntu's "-dev" packages:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52713
I've been using this for a while now and find it particularly useful for
avoiding build conflicts. T
