Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:29:03 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Other BSD's (was Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?)) Message-ID: <20020711182903.GD12246@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020711073105.GB264@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020709161953.GA69779@lpt.ens.fr> <XFMail.20020709124717.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020709171417.GA69932@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709231820.GA49510@gits.dyndns.org> <20020711005247.GE82744@gits.dyndns.org> <20020711073105.GB264@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:31:05AM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: [snip] > Hm, then, why not steal those ideas? It shouldn't be too hard and don't know, try to search the -arch ml ? > would solve a few problems. > > Some other things I like about gentoo are > > 2. you can do a "pretend" install, which will tell you which > dependencies and version numbers would be installed (ignoring > the ones which are already installed on your system), but not do > anything. pkg_add -n ? (not tested) > On that topic, with all the talk of ambitious new ports systems, does > it make sense to go the route of, eg, openpackages > (http://www.openpackages.org)? Perhaps they've already thought about > many of these issues, and if one wants cross-architecture across > FreeBSD, maybe it makes sense to go cross-BSD as well. The project > seems to be dead or asleep (last webpage update 31 July 2001). as well as the ml which sleep since may 2002. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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