From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 11 20:30:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09E437B664; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA78758; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:30:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 6 Linux pre-release, got it going. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Apr 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > I was thinking about that too. Maybe you can make a few Linux library > ports ("linux_graphics" etc.) so people who want to do something small > don't necessarily have to install the whole enchilada. > > Please talk to me about repository copies when you are ready. I don't think we should be breaking up the current linux_base or linux_dev ports, because those are (supposed to be) default Redhat installs so redhat linux binaries get the environment they are expecting. For additional packages, having monolithic RPM sets seems to me to be bloat - why can't we set up a 1-1 mapping of RPM to package, perhaps by a single "portal" redhat rpm port which grabs an RPM from the redhat site (possibly choosing from a list as an option), munges it to extract the PLIST and installs it? I've suggested a similar "portal" port for the p5-CPAN ports in the past: they're packaged by CPAN with all the information we need to know to build a FreeBSD package, it's just a matter of munging the information in the right way. 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-current" in the body of the message