"cask" ports just keep on rolling in...

Blake Garner blake at netjibbing.com
Fri Feb 5 22:15:58 UTC 2021


I also think this would be highly desirable. Would it be another portgroup
that needs to be written in tcl?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:01 AM Ken Cunningham <
ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> With no plan, we’ll just keep getting more and more of these.
>
> <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9936>
>
> This kind of port just repackages the DMG into many tgz archives.
>
> It’s wasteful. People want them.
>
> What we should have instead of this is some kinda tech that
>
> 1. downloads the DMG
> 2. installs the app
> 3. records some way of uninstalling everything
>
>
> What we have instead is a repackaging of the DMG into many, identical,
> system-specific archive bundles.
>
> Yuk.
>
> Ken
>
>
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