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Date:      Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:08:58 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: creating a meta port ports-mgmt/pkg_upgrade
Message-ID:  <4B16911A.6020609@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <b269bc570912010924i63d0791cj10c47e7d2c344e02@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4B15212C.5060201@bsdforen.de> <b269bc570912010924i63d0791cj10c47e7d2c344e02@mail.gmail.com>

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Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>wrote:
> 
>> ...
>>
>> Would such a thing be accepted? I feel sceptical, because it does
>> not even depend on several packages and the real solution in my
>> opinion would be if people searched the ports tree with
>> "make quicksearch cat=ports-mgmt" instead of browsing the file
>> system. But they don't and I know of no way making them do it.
>>
> 
> You could always split out the common code into a library port, and make
> that a dependency for the pkg_upgrade and bsdadminscripts ports.

Yes, I could. Do you think it makes sense to split a package that is
smaller than 100kB into several smaller packages?

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