From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 8 08:24:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3F7593 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 08:24:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@grem.de) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F4FA0C for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 08:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21649 invoked by uid 89); 8 Apr 2013 08:24:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bsd64.grem.de) (mg@grem.de@79.251.3.11) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 8 Apr 2013 08:24:21 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:24:22 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing list of required(ish) ports Message-ID: <20130408102422.1966ebd8@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: References: <51622F44.3050604@FreeBSD.org> <20130408095702.72e84f9c@bsd64.grem.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:24:23 -0000 On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:05:31 +0300 Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > > The outdated version is simple to update, that's the whole point of it > staying in ports. > > -Kimmo I understand this, but it should be easy enough to make the bootstrapping mechanism install the current version (otherwise you could just deploy pkg with base and let people update it themselves). -- Michael Gmelin