Some say it's slow

[Dan Ports]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Luke Browell wrote:
> I don't mind waiting for Mac Ports to build from source on the latest  
> packages. But why not harness all this processing power and offer  
> users the option to let the build be automatically uploaded back to  
> MacPorts or better still be hashed and offered peer-to-peer to other  
> MacPorts users who can choose a 'turbo' binary option.

The security implications of installing arbitrary binary packages from
random untrusted users are, uh, very alarming to me.

Besides, I can't imagine that a shortage of compute power is the
largest obstacle to having binary packages (which I, too, would love to
see in MacPorts.)

Dan

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