From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 15: 8: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6FE37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1257343EAF for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <20021126230805052002bstne>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:08:05 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAQN82cB034911; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:08:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAQN7vkf034908; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:07:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> <20021124081251.GA60642@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021125005107.GA64948@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125010146.GF90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021126025909.GA12750@rot13.obsecurity.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Nov 2002 18:07:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021126025909.GA12750@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <44isyk9bg2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > You dunderheads :) are all missing the point. Why isn't there something a > > few notches above "pkg_add -r" and a few notches below knowing how to cvsup > > and downloading a massive, obscenely extravagant ports tree? > > > > Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: > > Hello, which port would you like? > > No reason. > > Progress happens when someone sits down and does the work. Perhaps > this would be a good project for you to learn more about the workings > of FreeBSD. Alternatively, he could convince someone else to do it. I could be convinced for, say $500, but other people might be influenced by other forms of persuasion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message