Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:29:18 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports for any BSD (Was: Re: About the recent PORTCOMMENT issue.) Message-ID: <20021113132918.GA48165@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <20021113041525.GE80589@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021112210027.2e8c4e5a.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <20021113041525.GE80589@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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+----[ Esto dijo Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org): | | On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:00:27PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: | | > but I think it would be beneficial for both to adopt a common (or at | > least very similar) ports scheme. | | They have diverged too much to simply just change over to using | theirs: both systems have features the other does not, leading to much | pain, confusion and anger in the user community if we just switched. | +----] Has anyone heard of openpackages yet? (www.openpackages.org) I think the idea is to produce packages for all BSDs, basically a cross-BSD ports/packages system. Anyone from the FreeBSD ports working on it? Haven't explored it much, but seems they're just beginning. A great idea. BTW, Jordan Hubbard is one of the organizers, and Apple is sponsoring it, among others. Fernan -- F e r n a n A g u e r o http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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