Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:59:43 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Core GNOME distfiles Message-ID: <B88B767F.54DC%ade@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020209220939.C24983@johncoop.MSHOME>
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On 02/10/02 00:09, "John Merryweather Cooper" <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> wrote: > In concept, it sounds good (but then I like having a subdirectory for > everything and everything in it's subdirectory). What's the goal of > this movement? Simple (hell, at least I think so) :) 1. "Doing our bit" to clean up the mess that is distfiles/* 2. Reducing download time for people who compile from source by using bzip2 distfiles wherever possible 3. Follow my prototypical behavior for gnome2, which I imagine will coexist beside gnome 1.x for some time (ie: lets at least get the current gnome2 ports up and running so they can be played with by FreeBSD people - the more FreeBSD people we get playing with it, the more influence the OS has on the project). -aDe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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