From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 25 00:29:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20325 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sympatico.ca (ppp6551.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20320 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by sympatico.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA22541; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 03:28:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sympatico.ca: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 03:28:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@sympatico.ca Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Peter Hawkins cc: Justus Calvin , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free bsd improvemnt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Peter Hawkins wrote: [Re: recording hdd requirements for ports] > I would be happy to do the implementation if people feel this is not > clutter. It's not the implementation. You'd better propose a design, first. There is currently some binary package size stuff that Satoshi is holding. It's not perfect, but I think it's the best that's been submitted, yet. It doesn't even touch on how much resources are required to _build_ a port. There are discussions in the -ports archive. There is a relevant PR submitted (still open) entitled something like "recommendation re. ports system" (or something like that :). -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message