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Date:      Wed, 5 May 2010 09:29:18 +0200
From:      Reinhard Haller <reinhard.haller@interactive-net.de>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports and PBIs
Message-ID:  <4BE11E4E.5000604@interactive-net.de>
In-Reply-To: <4BE06A36.9080208@elischer.org>

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Am 04.05.2010 20:40, schrieb Julian Elischer:
>
>>
>> To achieve this goal we get another ports management application and
>> hope it handles also the non trivial tasks of the non simple apps.
>
> there is a PBI helper app. but PBIs are actually executables with the
> installation app built in.

portupgrade PBIapp should work?

>
>>
>> If the PBIs come with all libraries and resources we get even more
>> problems with multiple db installations not less.
>
> not that's the whole point.  The app has it's own linraries HIDDEN
> within itself.
> it can not interfere with other apps.
> (except in a port-number manner) but generally
> apps for which PBIs are good do not do that sort of thing.

Speaking about db installations we end up (worst case) with imcompatible
files.


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