From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 22 18:13:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010EF37B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8N1DhQ52537; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:13:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <39CC03C7.A67ACB97@thehousleys.net> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:13:43 -0400 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kosmos Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports features wish list: USE_PACKAGE_FIRST References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org kosmos wrote: > > I have an item for the ports development wish-list. This is > probably not a new idea, but it is related to building packages > on-the-fly, and it would be useful. > > How about a make target that would look in packages/All to add > a dependent package before attempting to install it as a port? > This seems like a reasonable thing to want. How would this fit in with the discussed re-write of the ports system? Jim -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me in your ~/.signature to help me spread! <- Save this lifeform ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message