Prebuilt alternatives

[Kenneth Miller]

Yeah you're right, I guess I should have thought about that. But then again, there could be a minimal trusted base, but that's a matter for another argument, my question has been answered. 


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 From: Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org>
To: Kenneth Miller <kennethadammiller at yahoo.com> 
Cc: macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Prebuilt alternatives
 
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:05:51AM -0700, Kenneth Miller wrote:
> I feel like this could be a distributed building process for
> everyone-why not have port check a server to see if something has been
> built before (in a similar environment) prior to trying to build
> locally?

Are you suggesting MacPorts should act as global distributed build
system and binary packages built by users should be uploaded to some
server for re-distribution? I hope you're aware of the security
nightmare that would be.

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Clemens Lang
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