Date: 10 Sep 2000 01:06:41 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PortsNG (was Re: Ports Options Paper) Message-ID: <vqcwvgku0vi.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:48:51 -0500" References: <20000903052226.E1205@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000909003743.B92984@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <vqcsnr966g3.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000909164851.G2089@bonsai.hiwaay.net>
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* From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> * It is possible. Might take a great deal of work, but that's * not the point. The point being is this a requirement for the * new system or just something on Steve's wishlist? * * I won't get to deep into a design for this because we haven't * even determined yet if we want to support this but... One * could write a program that given any two packages (foo and * foo_with_bar) the second package would be redone to only contain * the files not in the first or that were changed because an option * was added and a dependency added in the second package on the * first. In many cases this would be a nearly trivial exercise and * would help tremendously with our need for more space on the release * discs. I agree that it will be a tremendous help if we can do it automatically. Not only for the release CDs, but for people sitting behind networks, etc. I was just questioning whether it is as simple as you made it sound in the first message. ;) * Ok. Here's a rhetorical question? Why do need a new target or * option for pkg_add? Shouldn't just doing a 'make install' or a plain * pkg_add do this transparently? Maybe we should have an expert-mode * that allows the brave at heart to turn this feature off, but I * think transparent upgrades should be the default. No? That would be fine too. I'm not too concerned about the user interface. But what the target/command actually does is very important. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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