Homebrew

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 18, 2010, at 07:04, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> Maybe local repos is something that should be promoted and made more prominent on the homepage and in the guide?

Personally I've never used a local port repository, don't need one, and don't think regular users should need one either. It seems like it would just promote the practice of users solving problems on their own and not contributing back to the community when they can just shove a file in a folder and it works for them so they move on to the next problem, rather than helping us fix the problem at the source.

> For example, if I didn't want "port upgrade outdated" to upgrade openssl I could copy the openssl port to a local repo and have something similar to package masks on gentoo.

I would rather like for there to be no reason for the user to want to do that. Again, if the user has easy access to a way to install the older version of a port, then they don't report to us the problems they experienced with the current version, which is bad for the project.