Google SoC 2008

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> - Binaries / Packages ("Task 4" in Wiki)
>
> Using archives (tgz/tbz/tlz) would probably be easiest to implement,
> but packages (pkg/deb/rpm) would be the most useful in my opinion.

How would this be different from the dp-light work? (I believe that  
that was working and several people were using it). So, it seems to me  
like it will take more than just a working patch to get buy-in as the  
way forward for Macports.

Historically, Macports rejected deb/rpm as package formats because we  
wanted tight integration with Apple's package format (so we could use  
the installer receipts to check for dependencies, for example). There  
was even some talk of a new apple package format (apkg) that we would  
start using.

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