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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 11:37:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mladavac@metropolitan.at, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a two-level port system?  (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.990531113621.390D-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905311206.OAA19033@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> I am primarily concerned with that, and secondly with mainteinance
> issues when you have a new/updated port, you generally need to touch
> the Makefile and one or more files in pkg, and the info in pkg/* is
> often the same comments you would put at the beginning of the makefile.

Yes, but this would be a PITA for package building and parsing.

Please understand (everyone) that there is more to the ports tree then
building a port by hand. The web pages are built from the structure, pkg_*
depends on files being there (and not having to parse a single file).



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