Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:59:31 -0500 From: jher <jher@io.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: suggestion Message-ID: <19980909145931.A29509@io.com>
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I would like to suggest a number of different ports kits. I work for an ISP and I find myself grabbing the entire ports kit, installing it (which takes forever) and then only using about 20% of the kit, if that. What I would like to suggest is twofold: first: how about making tar files of each category? I.E. www.tar, net.tar, etc.. That way I can just update an entire section of my ports collection at once. second: combine said categories into larger groups like "foreign.tar" which has german, vietnamese, korean, etc.. in it.. "webserver.tar" which has say net.tar, www.tar, shells.tar, lang.tar, etc.. This would make life a hell of a lot earlier for folks like myself. Also, why the heck does the default install of freebsd 2.2.x and 3.x have perl4 as the default perl instead of perl5? Everytime I do an upgrade it breaks my setup.. -- Today is Boomtime, day 33 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3164. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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