From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:44:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6973E37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568A043EAF for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20071 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:44:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE32670.6060700@owt.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:44:48 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> <20021124081251.GA60642@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021125005107.GA64948@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125010146.GF90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021126025909.GA12750@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021126070115.GE899@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:59:10PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: >> >> >>>You dunderheads :) are all missing the point. Why isn't there something a >>>few notches above "pkg_add -r" and a few notches below knowing how to cvsup >>>and downloading a massive, obscenely extravagant ports tree? >>> >>>Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: >>> Hello, which port would you like? >> >>No reason. >> >>Progress happens when someone sits down and does the work. Perhaps >>this would be a good project for you to learn more about the workings >>of FreeBSD. >> >>Kris > > > Took the words right out of my mouth. > Peter, these things get done by people doing them. That is the tautology > of the situation. You might find your name in lights if you become that > "someone" who does it. > > Btw you might consider the use of the "refuse" file if you wish to not > download certain ports or categories of ports. I suppose if you put > everything in the "refuse" file you may still get the ports framework, > for whatever that is worth. My refuse file eliminates all the ports for > the languages I don't speak, anything to do with palms, the new > financial category and some others. Ah! But this breaks making /usr/ports/INDEX, which you are supposed to do everytime you cvsup the ports. Portsdb -U is still broken or at least it still generates many, many spurious messages. > > Remember one of the advantages of having the tree is that by browsing > the README's you may find just the program you are looking for without > having to ask for it. If you are so tight on disk space you may have a > problem building anything anyway. Get someone to buy you a bigger disk > for Christmas :). > I have at least one system with a partition called ports that I mount as /usr/ports. I do the same thing to /usr/src and /usr/obj for speed. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message