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From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: Getting rid of pkg-comment (Was: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?)
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:54:12AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> Come on now Doug!  Think about it.  There's no easy way to collapse them
> all, unless you'd like to take away "make makesum" (and before you say
> it could be scripted:  NO!  :-).  Though I guess putting DESCR in the
> Makefile wouldn't be so hard... hmm...

Agreed.  I am now looking at syncing our ports tree as much as possible
with NetBSD (and by association, OpenBSD), so that as and when OpenPackages
happens, we will be able to call upon (though not necessarily get :),
the combined experience of the ports teams of all three BSDs, which in
of itself is a good PR exercise.

Those changes are two-fold:

	1. collapse pkg-comment into Makefile/COMMENT=
	   pkg-descr remains as is

	2. implement true versioning support for dependencies

I have a scratch box ready to go with this, and am soliciting help.

-aDe

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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.			       ade@FreeBSD.org
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