From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 24 20:46:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D480B37B42C; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA23792; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: kosmos Cc: James Housley , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design goals (Re: ports features wish list: USE_PACKAGE_FIRST) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, kosmos wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Since the design goals of a ports rewrite/makeover are not entirely > > > clear to me, I can't really say for sure. > > > > Well, the only real thing I've seen is the document I wrote about how > > I think the ports system should be. > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1328497+0+archive/2000/freebsd-ports/20000910.freebsd-ports > > > > BTW, is anyone actually working on some of the things we discussed a > > few weeks ago? Steve? Will? Satoshi? > > It would be nice to have a system, like another Gnats PR database, to > store wish-list items, and link them to some kind of forum software, where > people can discuss things point-by-point. There is a wish-list category in gnats settable by committers (i.e. not by PR submitters) which covers this. Assigning the PR to a mailing list will direct followups there. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message