From owner-freebsd-libh Thu Oct 26 10:46:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from dnai.com (dnai.com [207.181.194.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAED37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azoth.dnai.com (azoth.dnai.com [207.181.194.94]) by dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20995; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acm.org (207-172-123-118.s372.tnt1.sfrn.ca.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.123.118]) by azoth.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA42375; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39F86DDD.98678B9D@acm.org> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:05 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System References: <49568.972563794@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Saying "well, you gotta build it from the port then" is to miss the > whole point of ports/packages transparency and trying to make them > essentially equivalent as far as the end result is concerned. On the other hand, saying that "you can do anything with a package you can do with a port" is simple naivete. People have tried it, it doesn't really work, let's move on. - Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message