From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 8 23:16:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB8037B423 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca14-01.ix.netcom.com [205.186.215.1]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA03521; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 02:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e896CTI07338; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper References: <20000903052226.E1205@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <200009082243.e88Mh9V05579@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000909020702.A64259@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000909044544.B67715@mithrandr.moria.org> From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 08 Sep 2000 23:11:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: Neil Blakey-Milner's message of "Sat, 9 Sep 2000 04:45:44 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Neil Blakey-Milner * > Actually, we *can* do this with the current framework -- just create a * > www/virtapache port that is basically empty and have all the apache* * > ports depend on it. Sort of like the kde or gnome meta-ports, just at * > the opposite end of the dependency chain. * * I never thought of this. This would probably work great. If nobody can think of a problem with this approach, I'll go write a couple of these (emacs, apache comes to mind). :) * The main problem is that I felt basically finished with the first * iteration, and ready to pounce on the thing, and I had no way to put it * into the system, since (for some excellent reasons) you're the * architectural arbiter in these things. Again, my deepest apologies.... * Hey, isn't it about the time of year to suggest we cut down inode usage? * (: Yes, I haven't had time to get back to that one. I'll get to that soon.... Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message