Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:12:57 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: meka <meka@softhome.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New kind of ports Message-ID: <1119712377.716.29.camel@dirk.no.domain> In-Reply-To: <20050625171055.1505c9fa.meka@softhome.net> References: <20050625171055.1505c9fa.meka@softhome.net>
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On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 17:10 +0200, meka wrote: > I've discovered existence of FreeBSD in 2000. That was the biggest > discovery in my life. Ports system was just great. Then, I had to > install linux and wipe out bsd. I've found gentoo the closest solution > to freebsd's ports system. Portage (equivalent to ports in bsd) has > some adventages (and disadventages, too, but purpose of this mail is > inprooving ports system), but I would like to point out to just few of > them. First is the download. If one does make fetch, interupts it, and > does make fetch again, nothing happens. In that case you want 'make checksum'. See the 'ports' manpage. > Second, why does make has such > a weird dependency? I mean, wouldn't it be more logical to behave like > make dependencies and then unpack it self? I'm not sure what you're after here, perhaps misc/porteasy or devel/portcheckout will do what you want. -Sam
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