From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 31 17:16:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21502 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 17:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21489 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 17:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14765; Sun, 31 May 1998 17:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <3571F2D2.684F8F26@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 17:16:18 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How about /usr/ports/kernel ? References: <199805301346.PAA29505@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Just looking backward, i realize that i am doing a lot of work > on the kernel, and so are others. So, how about adding a new port > category, /usr/ports/kernel, where one can find various kernel > enhancements etc which for any reason did not find their way in the > main source tree ? I like this idea a lot personally. However I proposed the idea of a port for something not too long ago (cam, softupdates... something like that) and was told flat out that it could not be done. I hope whoever told me that was wrong. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of one of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat servers with 5,328 simultaneous connections *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message