From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 16:54:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC6737BF6E; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca2-07.ix.netcom.com [205.186.212.7]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAB24518; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:54:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id QAA17681; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:54:03 -0800 (PST) To: Ade Lovett Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable References: <20000330172649.C14845@lovett.com> From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 30 Mar 2000 16:54:01 -0800 In-Reply-To: Ade Lovett's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:26:49 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Ade Lovett * Gah! How on earth are we going to implement that? That's why we have been pushing for PREFIX-clean ports! Once we get them where we want (in its own tree), creating a bunch of symlinks is easy. ("man lndir") * Also, we've been talking about reducing the number of inodes in * the port skeletons, whereas this will (at least) double the number * of them for installed programs. Number of files and directories in port skeletons is a problem because there are a bunch of small files. Installed software have much bigger average file sizes so this is not that much of a concern. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message