Interesting survey on Snow Leopard package managers

[Toby Peterson]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 14:28, Jeremy Lavergne
<jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>> I don't think you're understanding me at all. If a project updates its
>> config.guess and things work fine with the new output, that's fine.
>> However, changing MacPorts base would have many unexpected effects
>> that we'd be better off avoiding.
>>
>> Furthermore, I can say with a straight face that's it's ok for
>> config.guess to return whatever it wants, because it usually makes no
>> difference. It does for some ports, but not for most.
>
> It sounds like the change does nothing more than allow for 64bit to be built
> correctly on the 32bit kernel of SL.
>
> Is that a good summary for what's going on?

For the third time, the kernel architecture has absolutely nothing to
do with this, as 'uname -p' returns i386 for both K32 and K64.

- Toby