From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 7:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FDF154C6 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Received: from freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (dyn118.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.118]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA26985; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:11:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from hagenhomes.com (darren.hagens.ab.ca [10.0.1.3]) by freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA07504; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:39:32 GMT (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Message-ID: <38887B29.2694564B@hagenhomes.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:28:41 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe Organization: Hagen Homes Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: metaports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have never seen a description as such but I can try to describe them in my own words. They are basically a port that has a bunch of other ports as dependancies, so when you install it, what it actually does is install the other ports. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I see them all over, and i searched the archives, but where is a > definition? > > -=> jm <=- > > "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have > burned so very, very brightly." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message