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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:13:27 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports
Message-ID:  <407C49E7.4070207@ciam.ru>
In-Reply-To: <p0602041bbca1e9f31e48@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <200404131516.i3DFGMJA078941@green.homeunix.org> <p06020415bca1cfe1020b@[128.113.24.47]> <407C37E7.3080906@ciam.ru> <p0602041bbca1e9f31e48@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:

>> Of course we could.
>> But we can't to change all mighty-unix-tools with any target
>> anyway.
> 
> 
> I am sorry, but I do not understand this sentence.  I am not
> sure what you mean by it.

I meant we'll can't make the search target so might as grep-awk-find 
etc. tools is. E.g. I want to know how many files port has:
grep -v @dirrm pkg-plist | wc -l
(OK. It's may be not very accurate.)
But But idea is we don't know what info user want to get. With pkg-data 
user need to extract data first. Even if extracting tools will easy to 
use he need to know how these tools work (command lines, options etc.).

> of time and effort to make it happen.  I might be wrong about
> how useful this change is, but I (personally) at least *THINK*
> that it is worth doing.

OK, I can't say for most people. (Really I feel no need in it with my 
two 160Gb disks at my home computer :)
I'll ask in russian mail list.

-- 
Sem.



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