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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:44:15 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes
Message-ID:  <20110323214415.GA36480@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xn0hbyv0sk7vg6002@news.gmane.org>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:04:26PM +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > On 03/23/2011 03:48, Peter Jeffery wrote:
> > > If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if
> > > it wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand
> > > searching the INDEX file
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/ && make search name=opera
> 
> This would be a good time to include ports-mgmt/pkg_search into the
> base system...

No, please keep the base system as small as possible.

ports(7) answered most, if not all, my questions.


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Anton Shterenlikht
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