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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 03:26:39 -0500
From:      "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>
To:        <kientzle@acm.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        <libh@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Making the Packages System Better
Message-ID:  <01b601c043dd$75345050$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>
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Well Tim I really thank you for that clear description of what I had in mind
when I initialy posted in this thread.

I for one would really be interested in seeing your scripts. And if anybody
is interested, I will try to implement support for this scheme in the
current port system and of course supply back the patches to the necessary
files (most likely the various *.mk files for the port collection). As
mentioned there is no reason why both approaches can not be supported by the
ports collection. I am sure that a global PORT_INSTALL_METHOD make variable
could satisfy proponents of both approaches.


Now let's not start a holly-flame-war on this issue. I really believe that
the approach that has been described is sound. However I would also like to
hear about the arguments of people who oppose this. Maybe there is something
that we missed and that will byte us badly at some point ?


Patrick.



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