From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 1 6:13:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (as5-004.rp-plus.de [149.221.239.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A81150F5; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 06:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA85064; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:26:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA17537; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:26:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) From: Alexander Langer Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:26:15 +0200 To: Mark Newton Cc: akm@mail.theinternet.com.au, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <19990601132615.A17505@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <19990601121027.A16920@cichlids.cichlids.com> <199906011015.TAA30081@gizmo.internode.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199906011015.TAA30081@gizmo.internode.com.au> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Mark Newton (newton@internode.com.au): > I think most novices probably don't even know the DESCR file > exists anyway. Exactly, when I was new I used lynx and the included .html-files for each package to find out what it is. Ok. if you can remove the buildenv-stuff when the package is not that what you want, this might be ok. But you should then have a build-env-distfile dir, because I often reinstall a port after a while i've not used it, and so the distfiles often are still there. If you have no buildenv-distfile-directory, you need a connection to the internet to build it :( Alex -- ************** I doubt, therefore I might be. ************** *** Send email to to get PGP-Key *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message