From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 7: 7:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A77D1563C for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 07:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15795; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:07:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA13529; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:07:11 -0500 (EST) To: Walter Brameld , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: metaports ... References: <20000122.170600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <3888FA8E.FD65AA02@twave.net> <20000122.8115700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <3889C346.37971709@twave.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 22 Jan 2000 10:07:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: Walter Brameld's message of Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:48:38 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Brameld writes: > the word "meta". However, Jonathon's original question was > "What is a meta-PORT?" and I also lacked this bit of > knowledge, so I was interested in the reply. The other > respondent provided the information that a meta-port is one > that will install other ports that are required for it to > function. Just to be pedantic, this isn't exactly right. *All* ports will install the other ports ("dependencies") required for them to function. That's the *point* of the ports system. A "meta-port" is one that doesn't install anything itself, but whose usefulness consists *only* of dependencies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message