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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 03:44:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What do you think of this little hack to /usr/ports/Makefile ?
Message-ID:  <199703101144.DAA01436@baloon.mimi.com>
In-Reply-To: <14210.857992157@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)

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 * > Other than that, it looks fine (although I somehow can't see much use
 * > for it).
 * 
 * Not for you, perhaps, but I'll certainly use it in my one-liner
 * answers to questions when someone asks for something obvious from the
 * ports collection.  Telling them to grep the INDEX file for it (and how
 * else do you find something quickly?) is an inferior solution because
 * the output is then cryptic and unreadable.  This was my attempt to
 * fix that.

I see.  Well, I either do a search on the ports web page (the one for
"all ports") or just do a grep on */*/pkg/COMMENT or */*/Makefile or
even */*/pkg/PLIST.  I don't find the fields in INDEX too useful for
those kinds of quick browsing anyway.

But as I said, if you see use for that, go ahead.

Satoshi



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