From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 11: 0: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D51237B835 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c07-170.006.popsite.net [64.24.39.170]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27236; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA65317; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:59:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a better idea for package dependencies Message-ID: <20000509105947.A65299@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000509075209.D6350@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000509102912.D28677@dragon.nuxi.com> <200005091736.NAA08092@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005091736.NAA08092@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:36:03PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:36:03PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > 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''). Yes. But with the Ports Collection being the biggest consumer of pkg_*, there is more pkg_* clue on ports@freebsd.org than current@freebsd.org. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message