From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 13:55:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90EF37B424 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA18419; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:55:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porteasy References: <86og1ld4u6.fsf@md5.follo.net> <20000918142919.D35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000918153904.G35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Sep 2000 22:55:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:39:05 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews writes: > Sounds neat. Seems like this sort of thing should be put under > ports/Tools/scripts, not made into a port. No, actually I'd like to see it in the base system. The whole point of porteasy is to abstract away the ports tree; once you've installed it, you don't need [to know that you have] a ports tree. It takes care of updating just what you need when you need it, and does all the right things (hopefully) to achieve what you want to do in one single command. In the very few cases where you'll need to do anything manually - like specifying additional parameters to make - porteasy can still do most of the job (check out updated versions of all the dependencies, fetch all distfiles in one batch, etc.) for you, and you only need to do the last bit ('make A4=yes') yourself. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message