From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 15:28:43 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 3022737B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from JCN1400.jcontinuum.ca (jcn1400.jcontinuum.ca [64.141.69.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EDB43E88 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca) Received: from xerxes (jchome3.no.domain [216.211.5.209]) by JCN1400.jcontinuum.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gAQKV4w2002661 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:31:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca) Message-ID: <0c3701c295a3$7e5d0b30$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> Reply-To: "Justin P. Michel" From: "Justin P. Michel" To: "FreeBSD Questions LIST" 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> <44isyk9bg2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:28:09 -0500 Organization: J Continuum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 I could be convinced, for say... Three cases of beer. Canadian beer... None of that American hard water... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Peter Leftwich" ; "FreeBSD Questions LIST" Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message