{"id":654,"date":"2010-10-11T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:31:15","slug":"bloody-macports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/bloody-macports\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody MacPorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I hate about MacPorts:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 75%\">\n<pre>--->  Fetching xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Extracting xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Configuring xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Building xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Staging xorg-bigreqsproto into destroot\n--->  Installing xorg-bigreqsproto @1.1.0_0\n--->  Activating xorg-bigreqsproto @1.1.0_0\n--->  Cleaning xorg-bigreqsproto\n--->  Fetching xorg-inputproto\n--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-inputproto\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; <em>etc.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You cannot <em>blink<\/em> without installing X11. You can&#8217;t build python 2.6 without tk, and tk requires X. In order to get a bloody <em>scripting language<\/em>, you have to install a <em>windowing system<\/em>, built in the 1980s, that&#8217;s been obsolete 10 years. Why, on God&#8217;s green earth, is anybody still using X on a Mac? Why aren&#8217;t MacPorts ports written so the default is to omit X?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I hate about MacPorts: &#8212;> Fetching xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Extracting xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Configuring xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Building xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Staging xorg-bigreqsproto into destroot &#8212;> Installing xorg-bigreqsproto @1.1.0_0 &#8212;> Activating xorg-bigreqsproto @1.1.0_0 &#8212;> Cleaning xorg-bigreqsproto &#8212;> Fetching xorg-inputproto &#8212;> Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-inputproto &#8230; etc. You cannot blink without installing X11. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[96,170,169,171,168],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac-2","tag-macports","tag-rant","tag-unix","tag-x11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}