From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 10:32:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0732C14FA6 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21653; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:35:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > I don't see why we need a pkg_get or whatever when pkg_add already has > remote (with or without -r) functions, and adds dependencies just fine. Well, I for one would like a command that fetches a package without installing it. I don't see any option to pkg_add for that. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message