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Date:      Thu, 04 Apr 1996 08:38:19 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ports@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NO_PACKAGE and NO_CDROM 
Message-ID:  <19770.828635899@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Apr 1996 06:56:10 PST." <199604041456.GAA01309@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> Supscans are very light tasks and they don't live for very long.  I don't
> see the win in getting rid of the smaller collections, but you can very
> easily create a collection that subsumes all the others by using the
> "include" keyword.  Read the SUP man page for details.

Well, yes, assuming that you keep all those small collections
up-to-date as new categories are added.  It was just such a
syncronization error that brought this matter up again, and there is
something to be said for a collection that doesn't need maintainance.

					Jordan



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