MacPorts integration is weak

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#73 MacPorts integration is weak

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Owner: Anders F Björklund

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2012-08-25

Created: 2012-04-15

Creator: Dave Abrahams

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It should prompt when there's a feed that can be satisfied by the distro, just as it does for linux. See https://github.com/gfxmonk/0readme/commit/6c52ddbe466f78ec43fd917648bd950858b72f07#commitcomment-1212161

Discussion

Anders F Björklund - 2012-05-09

There is no PackageKit integration for MacPorts, but it could do something like the apt-cache does:
"This program depends on '%s', which is a package that is available through your distribution. "
"Please install it manually using your distribution's tools and try again."
Then again, installing packages isn't Zero Install.

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Anders F Björklund - 2012-05-09

Also, MacPorts doesn't have an interface to the packages - only to the ports...
So there is no guarantee that there is a package available, or what size it has.

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