Prebuilt alternatives

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kenneth Miller <kennethadammiller at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Why does macports insist on using only local builds? I mean, this is a lot
> like gentoo, where you download and
>

(a) Gentoo, like MacPorts, is inspired by *BSD ports which is build from
source.

(b) If you are on a supported platform (currently 10.6 / 10.7 Intel x86 /
x86-64) using default variants and with default install path, *and* the
port's license permits binary redistribution, *and* you have not forced
source only with -s or the appropriate macports.conf configuration item,
then it will try to download a binary package.

I would suggest reading http://guide.macports.org sometime.

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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