Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 00:04:58 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dwilde1@ibm.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502235900.241a-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <24978.894148963@time.cdrom.com>
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> > level first, before we even begin to talk GUI. For example, while > > installing printing, I discovered that /stand/sysinstall is completely > > blind to the /usr/ports/print branch of the ports tree. This means it > > can't find ghostscript, freetype, etc., and therefore crashes. We need > > Huh? Sysinstall has NO implicit knowledge of the ports tree and never > has had. What are you even talking about here? It would be handy (wouldn't it?) if the packages part of /stand/sysinstall could also understand the ports tree and be able to manage installation of ports and other packages. This _should_ be possible because the ports tree has a sensible structure: nothing much really needs to be hard-coded into the program because it can extract the information it needs from the HTML files there and /usr/ports/*/pkg/DESCR. Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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