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To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra)
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> 
> >For packages, you can use pkg_info to view inside the packages.
> >
> > * All of this stuff is practically screaming:  "FRAMEWORK!  WHERE'S 
> THE
> > * SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION PACKAGE??" at me, so I have to go now.. :-)
> >
> >Maybe we can have an undergrad (hey, isn't there someone on the list
> >teaching a user interface course? :) write a frontend in tcl/tk that
> >will descend into the /usr/ports tree and show all the descriptions
> >and such.  And maybe even install it if you're root. :)
> 
> I've written a simple script to pkg_info each package in the Package 
> directory.  If you're really going to include a html browser with 2.1, 

See pkg_manage.

Marc.
Marc van Kempen                    wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl

He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me.