Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:28:09 -0500 From: "Justin P. Michel" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> To: "FreeBSD Questions LIST" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] Message-ID: <0c3701c295a3$7e5d0b30$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com><20021124081251.GA60642@rot13.obsecurity.org><20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com><20021125005107.GA64948@rot13.obsecurity.org><20021125010146.GF90600@wantadilla.lemis.com><Pine.BSF.4.50.0211252145020.26262-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net><20021126025909.GA12750@rot13.obsecurity.org> <44isyk9bg2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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I could be convinced, for say... Three cases of beer. Canadian beer... None of that American hard water... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>; "FreeBSD Questions LIST" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Ports base? [hear me roar] > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > > > You dunderheads :) are all missing the point. Why isn't there something a > > > few notches above "pkg_add -r" and a few notches below knowing how to cvsup > > > and downloading a massive, obscenely extravagant ports tree? > > > > > > Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: > > > Hello, which port would you like? > > > > No reason. > > > > Progress happens when someone sits down and does the work. Perhaps > > this would be a good project for you to learn more about the workings > > of FreeBSD. > > Alternatively, he could convince someone else to do it. I could be > convinced for, say $500, but other people might be influenced by other > forms of persuasion. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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