From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 7 6:54:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.234.123.18]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303C93EF6 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 06:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon.local.idaemons.org (pc062023.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.155.62.23]) by ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (8.9.1/3.7W 06/01/99) with ESMTP id XAA19302 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:55:00 +0900 (JST) Received: by daemon.local.idaemons.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id XAA36103; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:54:29 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:54:36 +0900 Message-ID: <864sblukpf.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: enhancement of pkg_* tools User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.2.17 (One Of Us) EMIKO/1.13.11 (Euglena viridis) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.1 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 8) (Bryce Canyon) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Associated I. Daemons MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.13.11 - "Euglena viridis") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, there. I'm planning to work on enhancing pkg_install tools following after NetBSD's effort. Seems they've been making some remarkable improvements over FreeBSD's original work since 1997. For example: - pkg_add/pkg_info to speak HTTP as well as FTP - pkg_info/pkg_delete to accept wildcards - pkg_delete to support bidirectional recursive deletion, up and down toward dependencies . . Before proceeding my work, I'd like to know what those in charge of the tools think of that. Is already there a project in which I can join, or any arguments I should refer to? Tell me anything. Thanks in advance. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message