Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:07:34 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> To: "Peter Jeremy" <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, <gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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>=20 > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" > >ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty > >useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" > >can be installed at once. >=20 > Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on > what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will > automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their > dependencies. >=20 That would ease the installation of port X on Y number of machines. Same libraries, same everything, precompiled. Otherwise one needs to manually track dependencies (not a terribly difficult job) and make those as packages, and keep doing this until all dependencies are as packages (in my case, i have several=20 light-weight servers/routers that have no gcc/make capabilities). If anyone knows of a program/script that will do this for me, please = speak up! - Sten
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