From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 24 0:34:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B678537B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA26014; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 02:34:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-88.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.88) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma026011; Sun Sep 24 02:34:12 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000924013114.00b8f340@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 02:01:26 -0500 To: Will Andrews , Brandon Fosdick From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT Cc: Trevor Johnson , ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000923221424.Q1054@puck.firepipe.net> References: <39CD491F.C0AE18F7@glue.umd.edu> <39CD491F.C0AE18F7@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:14 PM 9/23/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 08:21:51PM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > These all sound like good ideas to me, why didn't anything ever come of it? > >Because it would effectively double the size of the ports repository for >the time being, and would make for a very long day for the person(s) who >took up the job of repocopying all the files. Um, yeah. However, this was discussed quite a bit earlier this year and the collection keeps growing. Surely the ports gurus could automate the work involved. It won't get any better. Pay now, pay later. No time like the present. etc So what needs to be done to effect such a change? Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message