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). - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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