From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 6 11:41:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 199154F5 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x232.google.com (mail-la0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90E121993 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f50.google.com with SMTP id ec20so1335409lab.23 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:41:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=t83MxuheZlcGTGjYzH/E8qwmlY6EUXWtFT52EZQxMv4=; b=o5dQ8AgWyxWQlSml48dxJB+exXx1f+/3pxijLBaWgefvkgPiYgF3v5G6vGOHv2+fdS CpzViWeoYKXbGQS1ry220wW3aKmTfMIlqHs3pH4p66rZ7PPJ/3GFKu2QOZMxUjcwitiB oB6CnHrPKNkzJdoObc6Q5LveWMFXF9bD2BmnaMlGnNDCbd16K1Vk+9+3v174DBtUAJw0 7vntxQT5CEbCArkfMjs6HUc5T0KKBRYZgNvjD/uS+IRCOoxSolZvXSLF1zxn+PYLn2oy wBHCN6fc8oIkHg9lxi3Cp6F/Kwj+Y2l7uJqyqDSlBNYFUJ0/1VcdLdJlPly22gV5h641 IfGg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.91.228 with SMTP id ch4mr4950985lbb.19.1391686869634; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:41:09 -0800 (PST) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.0.81 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 03:41:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 06:41:09 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Rdra55LEXlaZcRis_EWIXENfoww Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools From: Rick Miller To: Big Lebowski Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:41:12 -0000 On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Matthew Seaman < > m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > I'd be interested to hear what features you think are missing. We will > > implement anything (eventually...) that there is demand for and that is > > technically feasible, and that fits with the overall concept of what we > > think a packaging system should do. There's a number of ideas in the > > github issue list already (usually tagged with 'longterm' or 'thinking') > > and we are happy for people to add to that, or to discuss ideas -- the > > freebsd-pkg@ list is a good place for that. > > > > The ability to install certain package version, instead of installing > simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty please! :) I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step further and say "a certain version or greater". -- Take care Rick Miller