From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 0:37:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D19637B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A7B43E54 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6A7bpBu029863; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3D2BE44F.1D6094C0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:37:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan K Hubbard Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > but when you start distributing those packages for 3 or 4 > different architectures (as FreeBSD is definitely not far away from > doing) you also would like to not distribute 3 or 4 different copies of > the same architecture-neutral bits if you can possibly help it. That's another argument in favor of having the metadata like dependencies in completely seperate files from the binaries. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message