From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jul 3 16:11:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01274 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from joshua.enteract.com (joshua.enteract.com [207.229.129.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01247 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djhoward@joshua.enteract.com) Received: (qmail 8345 invoked by uid 1032); 3 Jul 1998 23:11:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19980703181111.G6665@enteract.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 18:11:11 -0500 From: dannyman To: Atipa Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme Mail-Followup-To: Atipa , Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980703174558.C6665@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Atipa on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 04:04:57PM -0600 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 04:04:57PM -0600, Atipa wrote: > Except that you can use fs tools (ls, etc.) to scan through them, and > don't need anything more. Once again, a custom UI would be really cool and > great for scalability, but we need to decide what resources must be > present (X11, http, curses, etc.) to read the DB. Being able to use normal > tools is a nice last resort in case those aren't available. I think all > port management should be available from the command line (cat, tar, gzip, > ls, etc.), but have a nice front end for convenience. A command-line utility with this functionality would rock, and maybe even be neccessary anyway to facilitate building dependencies and stuff. :) -danny -- // dannyman yori aiokomete || Our Honored Symbol deserves \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message