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Date:      Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        stanb@panix.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: New ports layout?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.21.0010152352060.6413-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <200010160332.XAA17148@panix6.panix.com>

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> 2 questiosn. What is the rationale behind this (I had grown fond of the old
> way of doing it),

It reduces the number of subdirectories.  For people who use FFS, this
should speed up untarring, removing, finding and so forth.

> and do I need to upgrade my ports building mecanisim to
> hadle this?

You need to update the contents of Mk/ and if you're using CVS you need to
use the -P option.
-- 
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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