From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 11 11:29: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D3037B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (camus.noos.net [212.198.2.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F192E43E52 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 40112287 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2002 18:29:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.70 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jul 2002 18:29:04 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (5a714h5s0kbmio49@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6BIT4TL021151; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:29:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6BIT3dm021150; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:29:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:29:03 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: John Baldwin , arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Other BSD's (was Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?)) Message-ID: <20020711182903.GD12246@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020709161953.GA69779@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709171417.GA69932@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709231820.GA49510@gits.dyndns.org> <20020711005247.GE82744@gits.dyndns.org> <20020711073105.GB264@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020711073105.GB264@lpt.ens.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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