Re:Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package man...
by riffraff on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:06AM
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> to say nothing of the hours it would take to build them.
FWIW, nowadays (for a few years?) macports has binary packages, so that is not as big an issue as it used to be, i.e. installing ImageMagick would take hours, now it just usually gets all of the packages and dependencies as binaries.
I think used space is not a huge problem either (I have 130 packages and it uses 1GB), the real issue is that it's anti-intuitive that macports does not remove inactive stuff and does not autoclean, so you end up with a lot of wasted space for stuff you had no interest in keeping.
FWIW, nowadays (for a few years?) macports has binary packages, so that is not as big an issue as it used to be, i.e. installing ImageMagick would take hours, now it just usually gets all of the packages and dependencies as binaries.
I think used space is not a huge problem either (I have 130 packages and it uses 1GB), the real issue is that it's anti-intuitive that macports does not remove inactive stuff and does not autoclean, so you end up with a lot of wasted space for stuff you had no interest in keeping.