From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 30 17:47:24 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA29789 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 17:47:24 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA29783 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 17:47:11 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA01188; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 08:46:44 +0800 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 08:46:43 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-PORTS-L Subject: Master description list Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is there a file somewhere that contains the names, comments and descriptions of all the ports and packages? I just had a new FreeBSD user ask me if there was such a thing, so he could make a list of the packages that he wants first, then download them. On a related note, does the 2.0.5 installer allow the user to install arbritrary ports and packages? I recall seeing something about "installing additional ", but that might refer to the various 2.0.5 tarballs, not ports/packages. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org