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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:52 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Third "RFC" on on pkg-data ideas for ports
Message-ID:  <xzpk6z2vxa3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <p0602040dbcd716257540@[128.113.24.47]> (Garance A. Drosihn's message of "Mon, 24 May 2004 00:07:34 -0400")
References:  <p0602040dbcd716257540@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> The third proposal is basically:
>      [rewrite the ports system from scratch]
> So, should we pursue any of this?

You can't possibly seriously believe that the project will adopt this
model without first seeing proof that it works and has significant
advantages (and no significant disadvantages) over the existing model.

This (reengineering the ports tree) has been tried before, BTW.  It
didn't fly, and the project (openpackages.org) is now dead.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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