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Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> > On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools
> >> do not offer at the moment?
> >
> > A GUI.
> >
> >
>
> That's kind of given :D
>
> But does FreeBSD lack a GUI for ports/packages management? I don't see
> many requests for such things on the FreeBSD forums or on the mailing
> lists.
>

It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection.
There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It
might be worth a look at those first.

[1] ports-mgmt/kports
[2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4


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