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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:52:39 -0400
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/afterstep/pkg PLIST (more bsd.port.mk mods)
Message-ID:  <19980903145239.C311@zappo>
In-Reply-To: <199808310714.AAA08628@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:14:24AM -0700
References:  <19980831002849.A5522@zappo> <199808310714.AAA08628@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:14:24AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
>>> user uses "pkg_add -p"?
>> Well, I have very little sympathy for a user who is trying to do this.
>> It's simply not supported for binary packages...
> 
> It is.  Otherwise, we might as well remove the -p option from pkg_add.

In my (perhaps narrow) mind, pkg_tools != ports system.

-p might be useful for the Desktop Contest judges, though.  :)

Besides, it's a ports __system__.  Therefore, if individual ports don't
support it, the system is broken and doesn't support it!  ;-)


>  * Just for the record, ls(1) prints arrows from target -> source.
>  * Doesn't that strike anyone else as being totally backwards?  <sigh>
> 
> But if "A is a symbolic link *to* B", would you write "A -> B" or "B ->
> A"? :>

B's data comes _out of_ A, hence I would write "B -> A".  :-)


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