Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:18:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <407B862A.3010209@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404130034410.4677-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404130034410.4677-100000@pancho>
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Hi, Mark Linimon wrote: >>>>This could lead to a general system where any number of different >>>>versions of a package or port could be installed on the machine >>>>without any interferance. >>> >>>That's a very different problem. >>> >> >>But it is what I meant. > > > You may be interested to learn that DragonFly BSD has this as one of > their medium-term goals -- but even for them, it is somewhat of a > "research topic" that is going to require some fairly involved > infrastructure changes. My guess is that that will be months away, > at least. > > In the meantime, with all the other challenges that the FreeBSD ports > team is facing (making as many ports as possible run on 5.x in > preparation for the branch to 5-STABLE; reworking of compile/install > options handling; the currently high rate of PR arrival), this item is > probably going to remain on the FreeBSD ports wish-list for quite some > time to come. > I know. This is something to be picked up by a new developer. It could be me. I did things like this a very long time ago. Erich
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