Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:37:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), phk@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <12282.835468633@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:53:38 PDT." <199606221753.KAA22908@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> If there's nothing depending upon perl, then we can just keep the perl5 > port. > > Likewise, let's do the same with tcl before it becomes a problem. Reasonable sentiments, but let's say now that I want to use TCL in a new version of pkg_install, or in `setup II - the next big adventure' - how do I add it to the world without a reliable source of TCL? Even doing some sort of src->ports linkup (which I've considered) would require that the ports collection become more or less mandatory *and* that the distfiles for any "depended on" ports were shipped with the system. It's the only way the user would be able to make the world from his or her src dist. Either way, it's a mess. Jordan
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