port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

[Georges Martin]

Good point.

And I just updated postgresql-jdbc, which depends on binary-only openjdk*... :-|

> Le 7 août 2020 à 08:59, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> a écrit :
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>> On Aug 5, 2020, at 07:52, Georges Martin wrote:
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>> If MacPorts starts to mix both approaches, I worry we may end up having (open source) packages depending on closed source, binary packages.
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> We already have that, by necessity. For example, php-excel is an open source php module that depends on the closed-source libxl library, for which we have a port. php-oracle, an open source php module distributed as part of php itself, depends on the closed-source oracle-instantclient library, for which we have a port.