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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:39:37 +0530
From:      =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktuClgeCkleCljeCksg==?= Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles
Message-ID:  <20081214090937.GC8403@chateau.d.lf>
In-Reply-To: <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A@gmail.com>
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In <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A@gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>
>> It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking
>> upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool,
>> but unfortunately that's practically impossible.
>
> Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model, like=
=20
> glibc.

What kind of model ? You mean using repositories instead of release tarball=
s,=20
hmm..?

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Ashish Shukla

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