From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 26 18:33:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6843637B503 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by hub.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14XZwv-000AOp-00; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:33:13 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:33:13 -0600 From: Ade Lovett To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Of GNOME, KDE, and large metaports Message-ID: <20010226203313.A8860@FreeBSD.org> References: <200102251534.f1PFYmF54858@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226095512.A8860@FreeBSD.org> <20010226120722.P426@bsd.havk.org> <20010226121735.M8860@FreeBSD.org> <20010227042141.A88635@cartier.cirx.org> <20010226154801.T8860@FreeBSD.org> <20010226211259.B767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010226211259.B767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:12:59PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:12:59PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:48:01PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > > Coupled with the application-specific mtree code (whatever happened > > to that, anyway?), we can further reduce self-inflicted (extra file > > "errors" when the files are all directories) uber-dependencies that > > exist only to make things clean up after themselves properly. > > Lack of time. I pushed for it, but nobody else did. (Then again, > nobody else maintains huge metaports besides you and me. :-) ) Heh. Well, Mr.Laptop Drive died and needed to be restored from backups, so I'm going to be a little less vicious on the initial upgrade and make this a 2 step process. Ho hum. The real fun part is going to be cleaning out the system and timing how long (cd x11/gnome; make install) takes on this poor overworked machine :) Seriously though.. I think we'll need to push a little harder, even if it's just KDE and GNOME for now. Others can follow. -aDe [24 upgrades to go.. 24 upgrades to go.. find an editor, do some hacking.. 23 upgrades to go..] -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message