Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dnaeon@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactive tool for installing packages Message-ID: <20101110154511.GC46822@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4cda516f.CsCJyXi6dA77aINL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <AANLkTimCSkE5Ukc4DrVpMZ6ZxggP2u-HRKqeKWZT%2B%2BNO@mail.gmail.com> <4cda516f.CsCJyXi6dA77aINL%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 10), perryh@pluto.rain.com said: > Marin Atanasov Nikolov <dnaeon@gmail.com> wrote: > > in order to install the program, you need to: > > > > # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it > ... > > Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) > > Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_ > improvement to provide a more recent snapshot than the 6-month-old > pkg_add_it-1.2.tar.gz on ftp.freebsd.org so one doesn't have to install > git, with its boatload of dependencies*, to see the recent improvements. > > * The amount of stuff downloaded by > cd /usr/ports/devel/git ; make fetch-recursive > is, shall we say, impressive. I use the devel/hg-git port to pull all the git trees I need to access using mercurial. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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