From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Aug 5 7:32:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5435C37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 07:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA8B43E3B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 07:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@scoobysnax.jaded.net) Received: from scoobysnax.jaded.net (d141-7-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.7.230]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D111313; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 07:57:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from scoobysnax.jaded.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scoobysnax.jaded.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g75EWFf4021076; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:32:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dan@scoobysnax.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by scoobysnax.jaded.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g75EWEnB021075; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:32:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dan) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dan Moschuk To: Zak Johnson Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:32:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3D498FB4.6987B696@mindspring.com> <20020803073519.GD47529@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020805031925.GA36422@opiate.nox.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020805031925.GA36422@opiate.nox.cx> Cc: arch@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208051032.14650.dan@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On August 4, 2002 11:19 pm, Zak Johnson wrote: | On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:35:19AM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: | > And an easy question to answer. Many, many people would love this. Al= l | > it takes is someone or group of developers to DO IT rather than just | > ramble on and on about how nice it would be to have and eventually | > descend to the bikeshed about what should be a package and what shoul= d | > be "core." | | Fair enough. I was wondering why some developer or group of developers | have not yet undertaken to do it. I am interested enough to devote som= e | time to it myself. I imagine, however, that it would go a bit faster | with someone more familiar with the current packaging system than I am | to take the lead. Is anyone else following this discussion and | interested in actually contributing to such an effort? It is being worked on. I'm tinking around with a new package format (see gigantic thread last month), which includes support for "base packages". I've been somewhat sidetracked lately as I look for work and enjoy the su= mmer=20 months, but I hope to have an XML DTD sheet which describes the meta deta ready to be critized "soon". -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message