<div dir="ltr"><div>So yeah - I think that a name and separate port is a good idea. I'm also on board for the category for the 0.0001% of us that would use it.</div><div><br></div><div>maybe <font face="monospace">category: binary</font> and <font face="monospace">binary-PortName</font> like we do with like <font face="monospace">py38-something</font></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>—Mark<br></div><div>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank">mark@macports.org</a>><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark" target="_blank">MacPorts Trac WikiPage</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/markemer" target="_blank">GitHub Profile</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:15 PM Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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is becoming increasingly impossible - have we come to a consensus on any of
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<p>I continue to believe that in general trying to shoehorn "cask"
binary installs as some variant of a port that is generally meant
to build from source is a recipe for nothing but endless trouble.
Homebrew has a completely different subsystem for cask installs
that makes it really clear what you are getting, and this is very
desirable, I agree.<br>
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<p>IMHO binary-only install port should have some clearly
recognizable port name that does not cause confusion about what it
is, and does not obscure or trample a port's existing variants
(which a "prebuilt" or other similar variant name would do, if
there were other variants). We have port name distinctions for a
great many ports in MacPorts now (the perl, python, php, etc, etc,
etc port families, for example). Having a naming family for
binary-only ports is No Big Deal.<br>
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<p>Chris has suggested a category inclusion, which is pure and uses
macports unique functionality, but IMHO is unrecognizable for
99.9999% of users who would never notice that a given port is
added to a certain category or subcategory.<br>
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<p>But we should resolve this, as many people want it, whatever is
decided by the managers, who so far have expressed no opinion,
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