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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:07:30 +0100
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVS removal from the base
Message-ID:  <CADGWnjUXMYUs4F=PhO6=XcvOEpvGBe%2B0%2BfHne0sNZtHkNFOXTw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201112141300.pBED08ov002173@fire.js.berklix.net>
References:  <4EE8344C.2070509@freebsd.org> <201112141300.pBED08ov002173@fire.js.berklix.net>

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
> Maybe sometime we will see a project arise that will be a replacement
> ports/ for more than one BSD, perhaps even extending to Linux, (to
> avoid reinventing of the wheel that must go on with ports skeletal
> structs for each OS) ( maybe with an RFC for a port/ skeleton struct
> ? =A0If so, that may have ramifications on bits of src moved to ports.

NetBSD's pkgsrc is already cross-OS (kind of), but it contains
fewer ports than FreeBSD's ports collection:

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html

> Cheers,
> Julian

-cpghost.

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