Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, grog@lemis.com, wes@softweyr.com, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Message-ID: <199810302231.PAA10092@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19981028092740.A3113@shale.csir.co.za> from "Jeremy Lea" at Oct 28, 98 09:27:40 am
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> > I was thinking in terms of a script (or package) that used the > > output of "pkg_info -a -q" (or set dependencies) such that the > > installation was straight-forward, given the commercial vendor's > > installation media. > > Why not just have a new ports category called "commercial"? That way it is > easy to make sure the software installs on all versions of FreeBSD, etc. and > that the required dependencies are installed. Obviously this would require > that FreeBSD, Inc. be supplied with demo copies of all the software :) I still think there is a need for a FreeBSD "install presence" on the distributed commercial software. It's not like you'd be asking for a large portion of CDROM realestate. It's not a hard requirement, but it should be strongly encouraged. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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