From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 28 11:13:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8324F154E0; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00707; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id LAA05748; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:19:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:19:40 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Satoshi Asami Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <19991228111940.A5715@tao.thought.org> References: <199912281839.KAA05641@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Will Andrews on Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:50:31PM -0500 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:50:31PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On 28-Dec-99 Gary Kline wrote: > > In the mid//late-1980's I read that Sun had around 7,000 ports > > availahble. This seemed like it made the Suns capable of almost > > anything the user might want to do, assuming that he had the > > major $$$$.$$ for these ports. > > > > We're not that far from the 7K mark; we ought to have 4 000+ > > by the turn of the century; that's really getting up there! > > > > gary > > Nah. We can break 5,000 by Jan. 1, 2001. No problem. ;) > Well, if Steve is right, we'll be over 4,000 by The Turn, which would be just peachy. (5K, so much the better, of course:) Whoa! you know, with _that_ many we'll hafta hire our own sysadmins to handle the upgrades and so forth ;) gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message