From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 13: 5:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (eyry.econ.iastate.edu [129.186.32.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A4214D38 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25034; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:08:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199907112008.PAA25034@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christopher Michaels , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:06:33 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:08:51 -0500 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris called, > All users have to do is select a package from a list, which is organized by > categories, and is searchable, and then hit enter to install. How can it be > easier? And all from a semi-graphical view in /stand/sysinstall. NOW, if > you could only get a list of installed packages and have the ability to > uninstall them from /stand/sysinstall, it's be perfect! :) pkg_info will give you a list of what's installed, and then you can unmark them in /stand/sysinstall > I do have one "gripe" about the ports. It would be nice if that 'make > deinstall' was smart enough to deinstall a previous version of a package. > E.g. if you have samba-2.0.3 installed and the port is up to samba-2.0.4, it > would be nice if the 'make deinstall' was smart enought to remove the 2.0.3 > and not give an error that 2.0.4 isn't installed. I realize that this is > easier said than done, and if I knew how to implement that myself it would > have already been done. What I'd like is some equivalent of "make world" that checks & updates packages that are installed or marked to be installed, rather than eveything . . . -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message