Why does Virtualbox need Universal binaries?

John Ruschmeyer jruschme at gmail.com
Thu May 16 10:16:19 PDT 2013


A further question:

Does the "virtualbox-guest-additions" port install the additions on the
current system (i.e., a VM of Mac OS X) or install the multi-platform .iso
file?

Thanks...
JR


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>  I'm a fan of using MacPorts for many things as much as the next guy, but
>> why not just use the official builds of VirtualBox? (I went down the
>> same path a while back, and when I saw MP start to rebuild all the deps
>> +universal I aborted and said "I can download one thing from Oracle and
>> live with myself.")
>>
>
> I hope though you whip yourself at least once a week in penance for your
> sin ;)
>
>
>
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