Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:12:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD pkg system vs Debian dpkg Message-ID: <13360.846159178@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:49:27 %2B0200." <199610240849.KAA26783@insl2.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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> Hm, what about the point with mixing non-ports stuff and ports under > /usr/local? Does the design address it? The packages section doesn't know a port from a non-port; just stuff that goes into a given directory hierarchy. The idea is to also merge the idea of distributions, packaged ports and 3rd party packages into one global idea of "packages" for which a generic set of tools exist. Jordan
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