From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 10:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65FB37BE08; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA08092; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:36:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 13:36:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200005091736.NAA08092@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a better idea for package dependencies In-Reply-To: <20000509102912.D28677@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000509075209.D6350@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000509102912.D28677@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Packages (ie, those things that pkg_{create,add,delete,info} operate on > are created with in /usr/ports. Not necessarily, and certainly not in the very beginning. I remember a number of times seeing a third-party software vendor who provided their product in that form, just as many third-party vendors now ship *.rpm files (and always shipped SCO and Solaris ``packages''). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message