From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 8 23: 4:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF15037B505; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca14-01.ix.netcom.com [205.186.215.1]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA07855; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 02:00:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e895xqw07294; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , Neil Blakey-Milner , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper References: From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 08 Sep 2000 22:59:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:50:23 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Kris Kennaway * I suggest the way forward in this direction would be to actually implement * patches and look for any unexepcted problems. * * But let's try and keep the number of concurrent projects to a minimum * since it's only a few of us involved, and probably fewer still who are * going to be writing patches - we have the improved versioning system about * to go in, it's probably most productive now to actually go and implement * one of the remaining ones, instead of talking about them all at once and * getting nowhere. * * I suggest porting NetBSD's wildcard dependency and conflict stuff next. * Thats the next step towards an upgrade system. That sounds like a good way to go. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message