From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 00:31:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43FD16A4CF for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:31:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF18F43D46 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:31:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 28872 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 00:27:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 00:27:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 31089 invoked by uid 89); 1 Feb 2005 00:34:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 00:34:06 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF69114CD; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 02:31:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 02:31:45 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20050201023145.29568355@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20050131155336.D1177@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20050131143802.X1177@ync.qbhto.arg> <20050131225850.GD81808@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050201014147.65da1cdb@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20050131155336.D1177@ync.qbhto.arg> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Kirill Ponomarew cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed patch to inform users of fetchindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:31:49 -0000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:56:26 -0800 (PST) Doug Barton wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:58:50 +0100 > > Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:39:16PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > >>> I can't help but think that the majority of users try to build their own > >>> index because they don't know that there is a better alternative > > > > Faster - yes, better - no. > > For the average user that just wants an up to date index, it's > definitely better. > > > IMHO saying this is equivalent to saying that one should use GENERIC > > kernel. > > Um, no, the two things are not even close to equivalent. Anyone who > wants/needs to dig deeply enough into the ports infrastructure that they > must build a cusomized index file It seems to me there is the need to dig is not that big. You just have to use OPTIONS or ports that detect installed ports and pick them as dependencies. And the fetched index does not reflect the local installed ports. And I'm sure I had to dig much more for customizing kernels that for customizing ports :) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"