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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sample Makefile 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.960802020952.21910B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <10600.838958348@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> sheer amount of reading one would have to do in order to use it in the
> full construction of a port is rather self-defeating if you're trying
> to make the process quicker and less knowledge intensive.

I consider myself a relatively naive user and I don't think I find 
porting to be too knowledge intensive.  I think, if you wanted really 
wanted to make it less knowledge-intensive it'd be necessary to modify 
bsd.port.mk to handle a much larger myriad of situations.  From 
extracting shar files to automatically installing manpages.

FWIW, I thought the searching-bsd.port.mk-to-see-what-do-extract-is-doing 
part (and co.) was fun.


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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