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Am 04. Sep 2005 um 18:16 CEST schrieb Oliver Lehmann:
> Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > It reduces the size of the port by about 40kb, and eases future updates.
> 
> 40kb? Wow, thats much in the age of 400GB disks. Dynamic package lists
> makes it nearly impossible to find out which files a port provides.
> >From time to time (at least) I need this information before I'm going to
> install the port.

I have to admit that I convinced myself not too long ago that the *ports*
plist-data is not for human consumption, although you might find old mail
from me where I state the contrary.
In fact I began working on a pet-project which would extract meta-data from
the *packages* (since I'm incidently sitting two floors above a local mirror).
The basic functionality would be at least to scan statically for conflicting
files. Mind you, I only have a +CONTENTS-parser (written in Haskell), and
trying to get a PhD is severely interfering with anything that'd qualify
as "having fun"....
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