binary rpm repos?

[Joshua Root]

Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> It turns out RPM works fine on Mac:
> 
> http://rpm4darwin.sourceforge.net/
> 
> -- why not have reference binaries for all ports in RPM format, to
> avoid endless recompiling if you don't have to?  Watching gobs of
> compiler output fly by doesn't make one a Unix expert, in the immortal
> words of the funroll-loops.info of the "Gentoo is Rice" fame.  Yeah,
> yeah, it depends on what you have -- but look, Red Hat does it!

MacPorts already allows building and installing from binary archives.
What's missing is an automated system for building everything on all
supported platforms and architectures, with error reporting, and
checking for an archive on the server as well as on the local machine.

- Josh