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<p>Hi,</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/5/20 8:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Obviously the block would need some tweaking for a given port, it gives the idea.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I can't think of a reason why we would want to offer such a thing.
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<p>I can think of two scenarios:</p>
<p>- building "always safe" binaries which can be used at system
level, e.g. login shells, tools, things put in launchd. That is
things you want to always work, even if you are during a MacPorts
upgrade. NetBSD offers two packages for the same thing, e.g. bash
and bash-static, IIRC. perhaps in MacPorts it could be a
"variant"?<br>
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<p>- a special case of the above is an issue coming up on legacy
MacOS more often where this happens with buildtools, e.g. a
"static" version of certain tools which are more needed than on
modern systems where the system ones are "good enough". When these
build tools break MacPorts itself becomes much more a hassle
itself to update</p>
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<p>Riccardo<br>
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