Macports On Pure Darwin

Charlse Darwin macports.users at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 12:45:08 PST 2008


This might be (or is) off the topic, but is there any way to boot  
into console (or ``>console'' if you like) without loading anything  
related to Aqua, Carbon, Cocoa or any GUI related part of the OS X?

On Feb 17, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> I don't see any point in supporting Pure Darwin for any reason at this
> point.  You're talking about an installed base of what - 20 people?
> 50?  100 tops?  I can think of more Amiga Unix users than that.
>
> - Jordan
>
> On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Feb 17, 2008, at 01:40, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>>
>>> Le 08-02-16 à 22:26, Michael Franz a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I was able to install darwinports 1.3.2, but the port files have
>>>> properties/commands that this old version does not understand.
>>>>
>>>> The problem with building the latest version (This started with
>>>> Macports 1.5) is that Core Foundation is required.  I would have
>>>> thought that darwin 8 had core foundation installed.
>>>
>>> and BTW many ports will also fail because they just suppose  
>>> darwin to
>>> be mac os x
>>
>> We still have separate "macosx" and "darwin" platforms don't we? Do
>> we want to continue having that? Or should we drop all semblance of
>> Pure Darwin support? I guess if we (Anders) are going to all the
>> effort lately to support other operating systems, we should also
>> support Pure Darwin...
>>
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