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

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 28, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>>>> 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.
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>>> This doesn't change, if linking to /usr.
>> 
>> It change if the files in /usr differ on each machine, no?
> 
> Why would they be different (assuming /usr, but not /usr/local) ?

Different OS X updates installed?

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)