From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 9 9: 3:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C99437B719; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14bQFI-000OdN-00; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:00:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:00:04 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Warner Losh Cc: Bill Fumerola , Mark Murray , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile Message-ID: <20010309170004.Q412@hand.dotat.at> References: <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <20010308015237.O31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103080830.f288UVR63950@gratis.grondar.za> <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103082328.f28NSLI06914@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103082328.f28NSLI06914@harmony.village.org> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > >Also, XFree86 is also very special when it comes to ports. It is >almost impossible to make X11 ports depend on a different port for >X11. There are many different places where it is hard coded or >semi-hard coded. This is a good example of where the pkg system needs something like the Debian "provides" concept, where you can have a variety of different packages that provide X or an MTA or some other system service with a variety of implementations. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at BISCAY: SOUTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6, BUT MAINLY 3 IN FAR SOUTH. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE, POOR AT TIMES IN SOUTH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message