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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
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In-reply-to: <199611190849.TAA28502@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:19:19 +1030 (CST))
Subject: Re: INDEX browser
From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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 *   ftp://gsoft.com.au/pub/pib.tcl.gz

Oh wow, it's pretty slick.

 * Beyond that though, what would people like?  Searching ability?  
 * Better xref checking?  (Conceivably it could check all of the build/run
 * dependancies in the INDEX all at once).  Point-and-shoot port build/install?
 * Stale-distfile extermination?  Distfile verification?  Recursive dependancy
 * graphing?

Have you taken a look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/tkpkg?  That
was a similar project (that didn't really go very far).

You can also do a "make readmes" from /usr/src and browse the
resulting README.html.

Satoshi