Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:13:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? Message-ID: <XFMail.990102091312.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901021214001.3978-100000@bragg>
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On 02-Jan-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> Just make sure the new releases of FreeBSD include bzip as standard then. Or >> make >> it so that the dependencies require bzip. Although when we are going to bzip > > Is what I've been using, based on the egcs port which uses a .bz2 to save > several megabytes. That's better... Would be great for stuff like DDD, Netscape & XFree. > Just as a lot of ports require GNU Make to build, which isn't in the base tree > but is built as a dependency, there's no problem as far as I can see with > adding a similar dependency on bzip2. Aye I know... Must have been sleeping from new year's eve, still. =) Great idea IMHO... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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