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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:17:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no>, marino@freebsd.org, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>, FreeBSD Ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Repair pkgng
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404092014390.2238@fire.magemana.nl>
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Hi,

So, after the detour...


>> On 4/9/2014 12:38, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

>>> Though it makes no sense in my mind. Distfiles belong to ports not
>>> packages. What problem was solved by moving this?

This still doesn't make sense. Distfiles are of no concern to binary
packages, so why would I continue to clutter /var/db/pkg with a large
tree of directories that is then duplicated to /var/db/ports?

What problem in portmaster or the options framework was solved by moving
this?




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