From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 18 23: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E43937BCFC for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:01:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ust@cert.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: ust@cert.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6J61eR02099; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:01:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6J61eA22078; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:01:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (reims.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.8 ]) with ESMTP id e6J61d426712; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/alaska [ $Revision: 1.4 ]) id e6J61dc91180; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:01:39 GMT Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:01:38 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Brian Clapper , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysutils/fileutils Message-ID: <20000719080138.A84274@alaska.cert.siemens.de> Mail-Followup-To: R Joseph Wright , Brian Clapper , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000716134043.A89318@manatee.mammalia.org> <200007181616.BAA25662@home.bsdclub.org> <20000718140737.B1464@hamlet.nectar.com> <200007181945.PAA71019@tributary.inside.willscreek.com> <20000718171554.A9725@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000718171554.A9725@manatee.mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:15:54PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RC Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 17:15:54 -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > If there were a way to install a partial port (e.g., select just "gls" from > > the "fileutils" port), that would solve the dilemma. But that does not > > appear to be possible with the current ports setup. > > I don't see why not. Ports such as ghostscript allow a number of different > choices through a dialog box. But some people find that type of interactive > setup annoying, so an easy alternative is to just *leave gnuls alone*. > I thought a little about that and I find it will be very uncommon (and to some degree complicated) to have a port where you choose which binaries are installed. Also ghostscript is different, because the dialog (which can be avoided if you are in BATCH mode) choses which drivers are to be builtin into the binaries. The list of installed binaries is always the same. The difference between gnuls and fileutils is approx 1.5MB. Is this a real problem today? If it really is, we should keep gnuls. (I needed at least two programs to get a script, which came from the Linux camp, working, ls and touch) Short conclusion: If Brian will continue maintanance of gnuls I see no problems in keeping it. Regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message