From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 5 12:05:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02091 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:05:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02072; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09030; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:14:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd008988; Fri Dec 5 13:14:25 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16482; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:04:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712052004.NAA16482@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 20:04:13 +0000 (GMT) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, toasty@home.dragondata.com, nate@mt.sri.com, jak@cetlink.net, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <28074.881287489@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 4, 97 06:04:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The second thing I think we need to consider is that in the longer > term, I can easily see a day where the ports and packages collection > have grown to the point where decoupling them from the primary FreeBSD > releases becomes essential in order that the "base system" remain > reasonably priced. This would also allow the ports collection to move > at its own release schedule, perhaps doing only 2 - 3 releases a year > and published in a format closer to Rich Morin's well known Prime Time > Freeware for UNIX CDs (http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/UNIX). They > come with a nifty printed book containing alphabetized short > descriptions so you can look something up quickly before wasting your > time mounting the wrong CD, and I think the ports & packages > collection should do exactly the same thing. I like this. I think that there should be coordination with the OpenBSD and NetBSD folks to make sure they are usable "out of the box" for them as well. It could become simply "The BSD ports collection". You may want to coordinate with BSDI, if at all possible... This should probably wait for ELF, though, since all the other BSD's are ELF now... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.