From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 26 21:59:07 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA16691 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:59:07 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA16684 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:59:06 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA00388; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:58:40 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Scott Mace cc: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer), ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcl/tk/tclX/dp/incr-tcl/etc In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:09:12 MDT." <199504262209.QAA02443@metal.ops.neosoft.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:58:40 -0700 Message-ID: <386.798958720@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > All it would take to integrate them all is a patch to tclX. > There exists a distribution of everyting integrated, but I thought > it would be silly to download a tarball of everything > when presumably you would allready have all of the individual tar files. > I work with the one of the primary authors of tclX, so its a matter of me I see nothing wrong with building ports that do nothing more than depend on other ports and then combine the results together in interesting ways. The ports mandate is changing somewhat, now that things are starting to appear in multiple categories and we're getting "meta packages" as well as packages. In the long run, I expect the line between packages and the ports collection to blur into meaninglessness. At that point, I think Satoshi will have to determine whether or not the "mission statement" for the ports collection has changed! Jordan