From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 16 17:52:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23066 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23060 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:52:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from bubble.didi.com (sji-ca1-120.ix.netcom.com [209.109.232.120]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07830; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09316; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:51:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811170151.RAA09316@bubble.didi.com> To: loveriti@testweb.uvsc.edu CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3650BE20.E64FD683@testweb.uvsc.edu> (loveriti@testweb.uvsc.edu) Subject: Re: Ports Collection and Multiple Languages From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * I have been a user of FreeBSD for about 4 years now and I simply love * it! I really like the ports feature that has been added and appreciate * all of the hard work that many people have done to make NUMEROUS * applications available in this method. It saves non-programmers like * myself countless hours and lots of frustration and gives access to a * host of programs that we would otherwise not be able to use. Nice to hear that. :) * In working with the ports collection and installing FreeBSD on new * machines I have noticed that an increasingly large number of ports are * of foreign language versions of software. The ports collection takes up * lots of disk space (ok, not TONS, but enough) and takes FOREVER to * install. Therefore, my question: What do you mean by "install" here? To install the skeleton files, or are you trying to install the entire tree by typing "make install" in /usr/ports? * Has it been a considered course of action to have multiple ports * collections? I would suggest one for all of the English ports, one for * the Japanese ports, one for the Korean ports, etc.. I think this would * be an easy thing to accomplish given your current install procedure and * would make the install time less for all people since they would only * have to install the ports for languages that they are using. Just a * thought. cvsup allows you to update only part of the collection. You can go to any subdirectory and type "make install". I'd think that's pretty good granurality for almost anyone. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message