From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 9 14: 2:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E7837B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:02:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C8843F93 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id E9BCDAE265; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:02:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:02:15 -0800 From: Bill Fumerola To: Tim Kientzle Cc: clemens fischer , Yury Tarasievich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... Message-ID: <20030209220215.GL20055@elvis.mu.org> References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> <3E46A10D.6090409@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E46A10D.6090409@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-MUORG-20021112 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:42:21AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Eventually, someone should teach pkg_install > about fetch, so it could offer the option of > downloading and installing the dependency. > IIRC, Debian's package system handled this pretty > elegantly---it even upgraded installed packages > automatically---although their curses-based > UI was ... erm .... "quirky." ;-) you mean like ''pkg_add -r'' already does? -- - bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org / billf@mu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message