port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

[Eric F (iEFdev)]

On 8/15/20 8:48 , Lothar Haeger wrote:
>> Am 15.08.2020 um 01:11 schrieb Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com>:
>>
>> so -- what would a user typing
> Obviously that variant would conflict with all other variants, much like +ruby21 conflicts with +ruby22. So the user would type
>
> sudo port -v install macvim +prebuild_binary

Doesn't the port `ghc` do exactly this? https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/ghc/Portfile#L31-L33
The variant name is: +prebuilt

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Besides that… Haven't followed this discussion very closely, but I think I'm more into what
[I think] someone said earlier - that MP should try to build everything, or try to fix it so it can.
/2¢

 · Eric
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