binary rpm repos?

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2009, at 17:00, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
>> it already builds binary packages and prefers them over
>> building from source when they exist: just have a look
>> in /opt/local/var/macports/packages/$system/$arch. And we even don't
>> need a new option for specifying if we want to install from source or
>> from binary, the switch already exists (-b).
> 
> I thought an additional problem was that software installed from a  
> binary does not get registered in the registry.

It works fine if you use 'port -b install', but not if you use a dmg/pkg.

I would prefer if -b would work without activating archive mode before.
Is there a reasoning behind this? Basically the archive skips all build
steps and extracts a destroot, so I don't think we need to activate a
special mode before.

Rainer