Homebrew

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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.

This comment almost makes me mad. The handful committers don't need  
local repos. Wonder why?

>> For example, if I didn't want "port upgrade outdated" to upgrade  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.

When openssl was upgraded to v1 beta or what ever and it broke  
everything I care about it made me wish for a way to stop port from  
upgrading things I didn't ask it to.

On gentoo gcc would be updated pretty frequently and a lot of people,  
myself included, didn't want to recompile gcc every other week.


// Brad