Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 04:00:25 -0700 From: <soralx@cydem.org> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports Message-ID: <20070529040025.52124254@soralx.cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <f3fcpk$30t$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <4659EF80.70100__16104.363036766$1180300054$gmane$org@math.missouri.edu> <f3cuvl$3q5$1@sea.gmane.org> <465B02C4.2020508@math.missouri.edu> <f3fcpk$30t$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote: > > Because the information is not a constant. For example, the mpg123 > > port changes its PKGNAME as soon as esound is installed. > > Maybe the time has come to give up on some of the flexibility the > ports tree has (and this particular one is confusing to the users) > [...] maybe more confusing to portupgrade -- one day I'll get tired of running 'pkgdb -F' almose every time before portupgrade to fix old dependencies (packages with old config or things like ru-xmms instead of xmms). This is portupgrade's problem really, but doing away from such "flexibility" would make life slightly easier... [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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