Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 18:30:59 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default Message-ID: <354BC8D3.41BA890F@ibm.net> References: <24978.894148963@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > level first, before we even begin to talk GUI. For example, while > > installing printing, I discovered that /stand/sysinstall is completely > > blind to the /usr/ports/print branch of the ports tree. This means it > > can't find ghostscript, freetype, etc., and therefore crashes. We need > > Huh? Sysinstall has NO implicit knowledge of the ports tree and never > has had. What are you even talking about here? Well, then obviously we need to add something. :) What I saw was that 1) most of the "blah-1.2.3.tar.gz not found" messages were from /usr/ports/print programs, and I looked at the 'add packages' screen and 2) didn't see 'print' as a category. Therefore, I jumped to the conclusion that 3) /stand/sysinstall can't see files referenced in /usr/ports/print. If it's hard coded for all the packages, then that's bad, isn't it? Why does it not find ghostscript (4 or 5), gv, freetype, transfig, teTeX, freetype, playmidi, postgresql or gdb? I thought all the pkg_add's were on disk 1, it's only the source ports that are split between disks 3 and 4. If packages are split, we need to address this, because crashes on basic dependencies like ghostscript are bad. And yes, I got apsfilter off my 2.2.5 disks. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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