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

[Ben Greenfield]

On Aug 28, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

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> On Aug 28, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
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>> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>> It change if the files in /usr differ on each machine, no?
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>> Why would they be different (assuming /usr, but not /usr/local) ?

I was raised to install my own stuff in /*/local the difference between /usr /*/local is that I manage /*/local. /usr I get from my upstream provider, currently apple and I don't mess with their business and they don't mess with mine.

Ben

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> Different OS X updates installed?




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> Regards,
> Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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