Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:27:14 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca, Antoine.Beaupre@lmc.ericsson.se, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, richy@apple.com, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Message-ID: <20010622112714.A1548@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <253340000.993200979@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:09:39AM %2B0100 References: <20010621203922.C2091@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <253340000.993200979@lobster.originative.co.uk>
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Thus spake Paul Richards (paul@freebsd-services.co.uk): > Maybe I miss understood your explanation but I got the impression that a > package would have embedded tcl code in it to perform certain tasks, so it > would not be impossible to write a pkg_add in Perl because Perl wouldn't be > able to run the bits of embedded tcl in the package, at least not without > calling tcl and the end result is still the same, the packages won't be any > use without a tcl interpreter. That's correct. That's because - as Jordan pointed out - the intelligence is in the package, not in the pkg-tool. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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