Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:40:50 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: ade@demon.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <16420.870558050@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:14:02 BST." <E0wulUw-00009C-00@genghis.eng.demon.net>
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> I'm not entirely sure that it's going to be as simple as a set > of Makefile diffs though :( For example, if one considers the > approach of a FreeBSD-base + FreeBSD-approved-packages system, then > substantial changes would have to be made to the entire source tree. Exactly, which is part of what makes it such a difficult subject to wrestle with. :-( I'm all in favor of better mechanisms for dealing with this, don't get me wrong, I just think it's far far easier to say "we need mechanism x" than it is to define and implement mechanism x. :-) Jordan
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