From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 02:27:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:27:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68EE43D1D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from epilogue@allstream.net) Received: from localhost (mon-pq62-071.dial.allstream.net [216.123.137.71]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with SMTP id 9686E1EC463; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:27:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:27:04 -0400 From: epilogue To: DAVID THOMPSON Message-Id: <20040714222704.62353bbf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040714220616.GB5994@isis.wad.cz> References: <20040714220616.GB5994@isis.wad.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Roman Neuhauser cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg / ports interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:27:30 -0000 On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:06:16 +0200 Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # thompsda@1stnational.com / 2004-07-14 11:45:46 -0700: > > I was wondering if this is the right spot to ask if there is any > > thought in discussing a ports and packages management interface? hello david, if you mean a unified graphical interface for viewing dependency trees, adding/removing ports, specifying installs 'from packages' or 'from ports', selecting specific build switches, just making and not installing, yada, yada, yada, i know of no existing tool which meets all these criteria. if you're proposing the development of such a tool, i think that this would be a worthy project. though it wouldn't necessarily add functionality to the many tools that are already available, it would probably provide a somewhat more newbie-friendly means to ports management (especially multiple ports with multiple cross-dependencies). if i understand you correctly, you may want to investigate /usr/ports/sysutils/portsman, which comes close. perhaps the scope of portsman could be expanded. because i have coding skills tantamount to zero, this is merely 2 cents. if you can program, you might consider contacting the portsman author and suggesting some new code? if you cannot, i suspect that rallying coders to this cause may pose a challenge (with the possible exception of the portsman author) for the 'functionality' reason indicated above. then again, perhaps i have no clue what you're talking about. ;) all cented out, epi > there are several interfaces: make, pkg_* commands, and > sysutils/portupgrade. Or did you mean something else? What was it? > > -- > If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore > your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >