New port needs commit

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Jan 13 19:09:02 PST 2008


Luis O'Shea wrote:
> Two questions:
>  - What is the best description of the ports referenced by 
> "file:///..."?  I called it "my local port hierarchy", but I now think 
> this might be confusing.  (It might mean my *copy* of 
> "rsync://rsync.macports...".)

I would call it an "overlay". A term coming from my Gentoo experience. 
It describes, what it really is. Another ports tree which adds ports 
(which may lay over ports from the official ports tree).

Rainer


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