MacPorts participation in GSoC 2011

[Anders F Björklund]

Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-2-16 19:24 , Rainer Müller wrote:
>> Any ideas floating in your head you want to see already?

> * Cleanly separate building software from installing it, using "real"
> binary packages

... with package dependencies, so you don't need to parse Portfiles
(or even _have_ the ports tree) in order to install a binary package.

i.e. something like FreeBSD's pkg_add (a "pkg install" was suggested)
     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html

--anders