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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:39:05 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: porteasy
Message-ID:  <20000918153904.G35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzp4s3dxxcn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:24:08PM %2B0200
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:24:08PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Short version: it builds ports.
> 
> Long version: it looks up the specified ports in the index file,
> builds a dependency list, optionally updates the port tree using CVS,
> and then, depending on command-line options, does a variety of things
> to the ports you specified (shows the comment file; fetches all
> distfiles; installs the port; builds packages for the port and its
> dependencies)

Sounds neat.  Seems like this sort of thing should be put under
ports/Tools/scripts, not made into a port.

> Is 20 kB OK?

Fine with me.

> No, but it means I have to add dependencies on the fly, then go back
> and start over until the dependency graph stabilizes. It would be a
> lot simpler to have a complete dependency graph from the start.

Guess you can't have everything.  Ports suck at complicated
dependencies.  Perhaps that will be resolved in the future.

-- 
Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org>
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