From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 19: 6:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F5B37B5C3; Tue, 9 May 2000 19:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07217; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:06:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:06:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a better idea for package dependencies In-Reply-To: <20000509075209.D6350@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 May 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:30:17PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Actually, it has to do with the pkg_ commands, which I believe are built > > when you make world... > > yes. > > > and aren't part of the ports, > > And are only used for Ports. Thus their behavior defines the behavior of > the Ports Collection. Thus it is a Ports issue. IF the pkg_* utils were > ports, how would you install them?? Oh, will you get off it? Finally someone posts something about a *technical* issue, it's got at least some reasonable claim to be on the list (it's sure involving sysinstall, if obliquely) and it's not giving a lot of noise. There must be better things to complain about. I could offer you maybe a dozen if you're not feeling particularly investigatory right now. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message