Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:36:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hoek@hwcn.org, David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970803132616.1366C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <536.870586606@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > How does the ports system fail? > > > > Packages don't need sources. They are the moral equivalent to > > We're not talking about packages here - we're talking about > sources. I addressed the source issue. To repeat what I said before, but in brief to reduce the temptation to skip-over it, packages are used to install binary things just as sysinstall can install a binary-only system w/o sources when wanting source and binary pkgadd is followed by make extract make world checks /var/db/pkg for ports that need to be remaked I'm not volunteering to write this and the number of other extensions needed, since I think slow, evolutionary change is what is needed and I can't make a longterm commitment right now, but I am trying to show that the idea is not so undoable as you (seem to) try to make it sound. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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