From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 15:34: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2888C37B9C3; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12aoRs-000FUY-00; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:34:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:34:00 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000331013400.A59445@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-03-30 (04:28), Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > No, I wrote it that way explicitly so users can install more than one > version of the same "port" if they want. Ultimately we want to go to > something like gnu stow (the /var/opt/pkgname/{bin,share,lib...} and > the symlink tree from /usr/local) and there is no reason why we have > to restrict ourselves to one version per port. So long as we can turn off this behaviour! (: I should actually dig up my stow-like C and perl code. (Noone commented on my portconf tool, so I just gave up on submitting stuff for ports for a while back then) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message