Ports to Include with MacPorts Installer Image

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If we ever go that way, let's borrow the package set concept of Portage.

Le 16 janv. 2010 à 19:56, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

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> On Jan 16, 2010, at 10:25, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
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>>>> Have we considered bundling any packages with the MacPorts disk images that most packages use?
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>>> No, I don't think we've considered that. What would be the benefit? Ports aren't hard to compile the usual way...
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>> Example: if zlib is required by 90% of the ports we have, we should go ahead and bundle it with the installer.
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>> I'm thinking zlib is likely to be one.
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> Probably. zlib also doesn't change often, which would be good for this application; if the dependency you bundle with MacPorts is updated often, like say sqlite3, then bundling it is pointless, because the user will likely be upgrading it right away anyway.
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> But zlib is also small and only takes seconds to build. We don't have any mechanism in place to allow ports to come pre-installed. I have a feeling it would take more time and effort to create all that infrastructure than it would save.
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