Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:43:36 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper Message-ID: <20000909114336.R632@radon.gryphonsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <vqcd7ie6qny.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:11:13PM -0700 References: <20000903052226.E1205@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <200009082243.e88Mh9V05579@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000909020702.A64259@mithrandr.moria.org> <vqcu2bq71dq.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000909044544.B67715@mithrandr.moria.org> <vqcd7ie6qny.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:11:13PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> If nobody can think of a problem with this approach, I'll go write a
> couple of these (emacs, apache comes to mind). :)
I suggested one. Why not create a VIRTUAL_PKGS variable that
specificies virtual packages a package creates, and add code to
pkg_create where it will maintain a file ${PKG_DBDIR}/virtual with a
listing of these files, and modify the code where
${PKG_DBDIR}/${PKGNAME}/+REQUIRED_BY is modified so that virtual
packages are prepended with a "virtual+" line. Or perhaps that should
be in uppercase, to prevent namespace conflicts (since we explicitly
disallow ports with uppercase, unless there's good reason etc).
I think that is *THE* best way, because it won't require more inodes,
but rather just a little more code.
--
Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org>
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