Breaking long dependency chains

[Landon J Fuller]

On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>>> * provide binary packages for a few packages that are installed
>>> all-the-time. This includes perl, python, xorg.
>> 
>> MacPorts has had binary packages for Snow Leopard for a little while now.
>> http://packages.macports.org/
> 
> The Lion one is a work in progress so probably not much longer there either.

In my opinion, binary packages solve the problem outright. I believe the problem that people have isn't with really with dependencies, it's with compile times. Most people really only look at the dependency tree when they have to sit there waiting for it to build.

-landonf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/attachments/20120319/8621e643/attachment.html>