From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 30 14:18:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFCD15BDB; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:18:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu ([207.92.173.144]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16124; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id OAA41059; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903302217.OAA41059@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: nclayton@lehman.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990330113617.A22325@rucus.ru.ac.za> (message from Neil Blakey-Milner on Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:36:18 +0000) Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami) References: <19990330085646.T14492@lehman.com> <19990330113617.A22325@rucus.ru.ac.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Neil Blakey-Milner * Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG * * On Tue 1999-03-30 (08:56), nclayton@lehman.com wrote: * > Now, obviously I could just do this myself (and probably will when my * > 3.1 box finishes rebuilding itself). But would anyone be interested in * > having this functionality folded back into the ports system as an option? As an option? Heck, I'd like to see it as the default. :) * I think it's a good functional add-on to the ports system, although I'd * rather not have it depends on GPL'd software (cue major upheaval and * infighting). If you're interested in the concept more than the program, * I'm willing to do the coding, if you're not interesting in that part and * were thinking of using Stow. No need to reinvent the wheel, this is not the kernel so we don't have a problem with GPL's software (or we'll have to rewrite the compiler...). -W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message