Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:01:28 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <374D5E48.15A2D82B@excite.com>
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I apologise if this has been discussed before. The ports collection seems to be growing at alarming rates. On one hand, this is very good; on the other, it has the unfortunate downside of having to store ten billion little files on one's hard drive. The current size of the ports collection is 300+Mb (the output of du -ks /usr/ports); the actual size could be greater, considering that most of the files are smaller than 512 bytes. Now this is perhaps a silly thought, but wouldn't it be more sensible to have just one Makefile for each port? All such a Makefile would have to do is download its port skeleton (on demand), and then do a make in that skeleton's directory. After that, everything should be the same as it is now. Well, the ports collection is manageable now (although it takes AGES to download/cvsup), but will it be in the future? Just a thought. Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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