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Subject: Ports hackers wanted!
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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(Note: I've CC:ed this to "hackers" too for wider audience...if you are 
 following up, please send it to "ports" only...thanks)

I'm now working on a bunch of projects aimed at "a better, friendlier
ports scheme" (how nice! :).  However, I'm severely short-handed and
at the rate things are going, most of my (brilliant!) ideas are not
going to make it into 2.1.  This is sad!

So, I need help.  If you are interested in one or more of the projects 
listed in FreeBSD-current/src/TODO-2.1/asami, please contact me.  In
particular, I need immediate help in the following areas:

-*-

Update: Thu Apr  6 08:24:02 PDT 1995
Due:	Hopefully before 2.1
Prio:	High
Task:	Enhance pkg_install

Again a couple of ideas here:

(1) Make pkg_create or pkg_add able to "register" a package from the
    ports directory by looking into pkg/PLIST.  We can then call this
    from the "install" rule in bsd.port.mk so that the user can
    pkg_delete it later.

(2) Add some way to include the dependency information (usually
    LIB_DEPENDS, maybe EXEC_DEPENDS too but this one is harder 'cause
    it may be required only for compilation) into the package so that
    pkg_add will check for the existences and print out messages
    advising users to fetch additional packages.  This would be a
    great enhancement over the current "ld.so: libfoo not found"
    solution. :)

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Update:	Thu Apr  6 08:30:43 PDT 1995
Due:	Not specified
Prio:	High
Task:	A graphical front-end for port/package installation

There's already someone working on this (tkpkg).  I also need to take
a look at pkg_manage.  Jordan claims to have a better version. :)

-*-

Thanks!

Satoshi