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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:03:15 +0100 (CET)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ???
Message-ID:  <200111161203.fAGC3FI05149@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011115211037.B721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:36:37AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:03:11AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > For linux_base, I don't see that need.  The 7.1 version
> > > > should include any needed 6.2 "compat" libs(bits).
> > > 
> > > No. The linux_base-7 port should install a minimal set of Red Hat 7.x
> > > packages. If Red Hat 7.x sucks, linux_base-7 will sucks. It's that
> > > simple...
> > 
> > I guess David was thinking to something like linux_compat-7 which
> > install cleanly over linux_base-7 as linux_devtools and such do.
> > 
> > so, linux ports which require 7.1 are safe w/ linux_base-7 and
> > the ones which require 6.x are safe w/ linux_compat-7. no more
> > need to install linux_base-7 over linux_base or whatever...
> 
> We don't need ports for that. People have all the freedom to
> remove and install packages to tweak the environment for their
> needs. The port is kept clean especially for that reason.

are you saying me that if I want staroffice-6, I have to get rid
of linux_base-6, to install linux_base-7 and to tweak it myself
to make linux_netscape working fine ? are you serious...

I a wonderfull world, I only have to install linux_base-7 to
make staroffice-6 happy, and linux_compat-7 to make linux_netscape
happy. no more, no less. so, a compat port would greatly simplify
things and linux_base-6 wouldn't be needed any more.

that is what I anderstand but maybe I'm wrong somewhere.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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