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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 2014 07:58:57 -0500
From:      Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
To:        Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com>
Cc:        Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com>
> 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".
> >
> >
>
> I suspect he meant  "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes
> you might want to hold back a package.
>

Correct.  My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a
certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features.  Thus, allowing
him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or even "port-1.0 or
newer".

-- 
Take care
Rick Miller



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