Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:34:30 +0200 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alternative options for ports Message-ID: <20041017193430.GA842@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <20041016181031.GM42886@hex.databits.net> References: <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <200410152156.16113.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041016015034.GA92507@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200410161331.01356.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041016121159.GA41657@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041016130214.GK10363@k7.mavetju> <20041016181031.GM42886@hex.databits.net>
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--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 16.10.2004 at 13:10:31 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > Indeed. Please end this silly discussion. Packages should be > taken into account wherever possible, and slave ports satisfy the > need pretty well. They may not work for everything, however. :( >=20 > Unfortunately, adding code for FLAVORS and friend is extremely > nontrivial. I looked into that a few times, and we would need to > more or less rewrite the whole functionality... and doing so in > make-ese is difficult, to say the least. Could you please elaborate some more? Which are the key difficulties you see? I can think of the following problems: - INDEX - sysinstall - Mixing port upgrades from packages and source (Where does one specify the flavour? How can a "port upgrade" know which "package flavour" it should upgrade?) Ulrich Spoerlein --=20 PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Encrypted mail welcome! PGP Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." didn't you understand? --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBcslGmArGtfDbn0QRAqAfAKCVIh2zCMmFeF+ADKbvsjq7CKbIEwCgjtCR lkacucq4S54+/J0tlFCHQ68= =ePOS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--
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