A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Ben Greenfield wrote:
> 
>> Hey All,
>> 
>> I have been using MacPorts for years and the way I use it works because of /opt/local/. If  the notion of  everything living under /opt/local went away I would have to change my process. 
> 
> I don't think anyone has suggested this.
> 
>> I do my building on a single machine and rsync out the /opt/local/ results to my clients. I have always considered it a great design and I want to encourage maintaining the /opt/local/. If things were built and spread out across the file tree my methods become more complicated. This also protects my production /opt/local/ from MacPorts build process breaking.
> 
> This doesn't change, if linking to /usr.

It change if the files in /usr differ on each machine, no?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)