Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/30/13 11:16 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: It isn't an attack on you: we have a page devoted to the specific instance I'm referencing: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPortsFraud Wow. I didn't know about the Paypal solicitations! -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com _

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
It isn't an attack on you: we have a page devoted to the specific instance I'm referencing: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPortsFraud Kevin Walzer wrote: >On 1/30/13 10:57 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> One time funding (pay for a task) is (arguably) different than >routinely asking for m

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/30/13 10:57 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: One time funding (pay for a task) is (arguably) different than routinely asking for money. We have had trolls in the past like that, simply feeding off people. Well, I don't think I'm a troll...for a long time PortAuthority was the only viable GUI t

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
One time funding (pay for a task) is (arguably) different than routinely asking for money. We have had trolls in the past like that, simply feeding off people. Kevin Walzer wrote: >On 1/30/13 10:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> Huh. >> >> Don't remember that one. Certainly not one that would as

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/30/13 10:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Huh. Don't remember that one. Certainly not one that would ask for cash. It's been around since 2005. Interesting that you criticize the monetary aspect of it, however...doesn't GSOC provide, um, cash funding for the students chosen to work on the

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
Huh. Don't remember that one. Certainly not one that would ask for cash. Kevin Walzer wrote: >On 1/30/13 10:37 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> It is routinely a GSoC project, and since we were not chosen last >year it has definitely fallen behind. >> >>> >BTW, does Macports have a nice safe GUI?

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 1/30/13 10:37 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: It is routinely a GSoC project, and since we were not chosen last year it has definitely fallen behind. >BTW, does Macports have a nice safe GUI? There are others... http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
It is routinely a GSoC project, and since we were not chosen last year it has definitely fallen behind. >BTW, does Macports have a nice safe GUI? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/l

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On 31/01/2013, at 1:11 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > If you stay within that, you cannot affect any files in other folders, even > if they > are owned by you. > > Not entirely true; do you know about ".."? "~" / "$HOME"? Random scripts > ver

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > If you stay within that, you cannot affect any files in other folders, > even if they > are owned by you. > Not entirely true; do you know about ".."? "~" / "$HOME"? Random scripts very well might. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On 31/01/2013, at 6:36 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Eneko Gotzon Ares > wrote: > To execute powerful commands (for MacPorts) in Terminal, can cause negative > side effects? (disturb the drivers of smart card readers, the display > adjustment, etc…). You have no

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 30, 2013, at 13:49, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> That is exactly what I am thinking of; such actions are present as scripts >> in the archive, are they not? I'm thinking that they can be inspected >> before installing. > > I know a copy of the portfile is kept in the registry and it is ac

Re: How do I link with Aquaterm library for an external build?

2013-01-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 30, 2013, at 15:50, Jerry wrote: > On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Please try to add "-F/opt/local/Frameworks" to CFLAGS >> (CXXFLAGS/ObjCFLAGS/FFLAGS/FCFLAGS) and LDFLAGS in addition to >> "-framework AquaTerm" and report whether it works. I don't have any >> good

Re: How do I link with Aquaterm library for an external build?

2013-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Jerry wrote: >> I recently deleted my AquaTerm version that was installed by the AquaTerm >> installer which had put a framework in /Library/Applications/Frameworks as >> well as things in other places. I thi

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2013-01-30 Thread ryan koehler
might also check things like CPU temperature etc. If MacPorts is building from source instead of downloading prebuilt archives, it may be pushing some marginal component too close to the edge. (Electronic components do age and fail, and can sometimes be defective in ways that only show at the

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> That is exactly what I am thinking of; such actions are present as scripts in > the archive, are they not? I'm thinking that they can be inspected before > installing. I know a copy of the portfile is kept in the registry and it is actually used for deactivate/uninstall. The copy in the arc

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > > (Hm, do we have a paranoid mode where it makes an archive but doesn't > install it automatically, so one can inspect the archive before activating > it?) > > Likely either `port destroot` or `port archive` to inspect what will be > insta

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> (Hm, do we have a paranoid mode where it makes an archive but doesn't install > it automatically, so one can inspect the archive before activating it?) Likely either `port destroot` or `port archive` to inspect what will be installed. Keep in mind, however, that a Portfile might dictate things

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote: > To execute powerful commands (for MacPorts) in Terminal, can cause > negative side effects? (disturb the drivers of smart card readers, the > display adjustment, etc…). > All's fair for root --- this is why MacPorts uses sandboxing and d

Side effects?

2013-01-30 Thread Eneko Gotzon Ares
Hello everyone :) To execute powerful commands (for MacPorts) in Terminal, can cause negative side effects? (disturb the drivers of smart card readers, the display adjustment, etc…). Recently my –loved– computer has started suffering some little such kind of problems for which I find no e

Re: How do I link with Aquaterm library for an external build?

2013-01-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Jerry wrote: > I recently deleted my AquaTerm version that was installed by the AquaTerm > installer which had put a framework in /Library/Applications/Frameworks as > well as things in other places. I think there might have been a link from the > framework to s

How do I link with Aquaterm library for an external build?

2013-01-30 Thread Jerry
I recently deleted my AquaTerm version that was installed by the AquaTerm installer which had put a framework in /Library/Applications/Frameworks as well as things in other places. I think there might have been a link from the framework to somewhere in /usr/bin but I don't recall exactly. Now,