Packages Not [was Re: ambivalence about fortran (was Re: numpy & non-Apple gcc?)]

[Jeremy Lavergne]

>> Archives are essentially "dumb", and even the über-simplistic {Free,Net,Open}BSD package manager makes its .tar.gz package files "smarter" by including a special manifest file (+CONTENTS) that has a whole bunch of possible actions embedded in it.

BTW, you'll find these files in the archives that are generated.

+COMMENT
+CONTENTS
+DESC
+PORTFILE
+STATE

So once again, since MacPorts calls them archives, even though they're packages in teh sense you discussed, they cover the needs here.

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