From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 20:36:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4BA37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from callisto.picknowl.com.au (callisto.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FA243E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon (popadl-06-035.picknowl.com.au [203.24.76.163]) by callisto.picknowl.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g933aJt04123 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:06:19 +0930 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Ian Moore To: "bsd-questions" Subject: Suggestion re packages Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:06:17 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210031306.17102.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, As I was browsing thru the questions mailing list just now, I thought of=20 something that might improve the ease of use of our ports/packages system= =2E It seems to me it would be helpful if packages included a quick summary o= f any=20 options used to compile the package and anything else that isn't included= in=20 the packages, but is present in the port (or vice versa?). For example - = the=20 authentication bits in Squid) I've come across problems several times where I couldn't get something to= work=20 because I'd installed the package rather than the port and I've seen=20 questions from others with the same problem. What do you think? Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message