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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:45:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: speaking of 3.4... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231843420.20633-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199911240157.UAA45302@rwwa.com>

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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Robert Withrow wrote:

> save me the effort of searching around for updates.  (And it would
> be especially cool if it would come with a utility that would scan
> through my installed packages and notify me of the updated ones,
> allowing me to install them if I wish.) I would prefer to 

You mean like pkg_version(1)? This doesn't currently give you the option
of updating automatically, but that's not so much of a problem.

> Also, if critical bug fixes (like CERT fixes and things of this severity)
> could be distributed as packages/ports, this would reduce the pressure 
> for new releases somewhat.

In theory this could probably be done, but it opens up the whole redhat
can of worms about dependencies.

Kris

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Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of
two evils..



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