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Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
From: Justin Edward Muniz <justin.muniz@maine.edu>
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>
> I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be
> useful.
>
> One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may
> already have similar things.
>
> Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to
study it.
Portsnap and pkgng seem like interesting projects, would it be bizarre to
combine
functionality into one GUI? I need to do more research on pkgng, I am more
familiar
with the other commands.