From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 11 6:27:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0241C37B66C; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from magus@localhost) by hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9BDR9448027; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:27:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from magus) To: Rasmus Kaj Cc: Jeremy Lea , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding '-gnome' and '-gtk' to package names References: <20001010182014.R30468@shale.csir.co.za> <84lmvvvkg7.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> From: Nat Lanza Date: 11 Oct 2000 09:27:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: Rasmus Kaj's message of "11 Oct 2000 10:41:28 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rasmus Kaj writes: > It would be nice if e.g. pkg_info -I foo would list foo-1.0, > foo-gtk-1.0, and foo-mysql-0.8 (with their comments). And it should > not be _to_ hard (but don't hold your breath waiting for patches from > me) to make pkg_info do just that, especially if we make sure there is > no "other" uses of dashes in package names (as Jeremy Lea said we > should). We wouldn't have to change the naming for that. Hmm. 'pkg_info -I' is a good idea, whether or not package options are stored in the package name. I'll try to get some time to put a patch together before I fly out to Monterey. > When you have a ftp directory of built packages (or a cdrom), you > better have some difference in the filenames if the packages are > different ... Good point. But does the name of the file holding a package need to map exactly to the name of the package? If 'foo-gtk-1.0.tgz' installed package foo-1.0 with the GTK+ extras, I don't think it'd be too bad. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message