Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:37:47 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: metaport by request? Message-ID: <20020409133747.GP75343@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020409093425.A81951@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020409093425.A81951@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:34:25AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > For those who don't know, I'm in the last stages of publishing a book > on FreeBSD. > > Last night, it occured to me that it would be really nifty if I could > get a FreeBSD metaport to include all the software discussed in the > book. This would be much like the docproj port; it wouldn't include > anything in and of itself, it would just depend on a whole bunch of > other ports. I don't know what FreeBSD's policy on this sort of thing > is, but I figured it was worth asking for. > > Would someone out there be willing to build a proper port of, say, > misc/absolutebsd if I can provide a list of the ports it would > require? I personally don't like the idea very much as it tends to bloat, but we already have 6,770+ ports and a new one would be a drop of water in the Pacific Ocean.. and besides that, Greg Lehey already took it upon himself to create the precedent for this... ;) I'm sure you can write your own metaport.. they are even more trivial to write than, say, a CLI IRC client's port. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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