Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:54:24 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps Message-ID: <46A1C9C0.5080205@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46A1C2C9.80704@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <46A05B21.90603@u.washington.edu> <46A0711F.2020200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <46A1068A.3010004@FreeBSD.org> <46A1C2C9.80704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Again, the idea here was not to change anything in the ports
> themselves: just what was presented in the INDEX,
Ok, then I think it's incumbent on you to explain what the benefit
would be.
> and then mainly as a resource to make easier the lives of the
> people that write ports management software.
Well, I'm one of those people, and portmaster ignores the index file
altogether, for whatever that's worth.
Doug
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