Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> To: Jaakko Salomaa <jsalomaa@saunalahti.fi> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241440450.71250-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909240149250.1295-100000@kone.kala.net>
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > And yes, I know what ports are. But fetching and installing packages is > much faster than fetching the bigger source tarball and compiling it. And > yes, I know about the remote fetching ability of pkg_add, but it is pretty > poor in my opinion. I think we need something like this. I'll make a port > out of this if you want, or if it's my lucky day, perhaps it should even > be added to the base distribution (damn, I'm ambitious :-]). Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and some enviromental variables. I don't see the huge benefit. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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