Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 02:01:26 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000924013114.00b8f340@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <20000923221424.Q1054@puck.firepipe.net> References: <39CD491F.C0AE18F7@glue.umd.edu> <Pine.BSI.4.21.0009231741060.8593-100000@blues.jpj.net> <39CD491F.C0AE18F7@glue.umd.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 10:14 PM 9/23/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 08:21:51PM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > These all sound like good ideas to me, why didn't anything ever come of it? > >Because it would effectively double the size of the ports repository for >the time being, and would make for a very long day for the person(s) who >took up the job of repocopying all the files. Um, yeah. However, this was discussed quite a bit earlier this year and the collection keeps growing. Surely the ports gurus could automate the work involved. It won't get any better. Pay now, pay later. No time like the present. etc So what needs to be done to effect such a change? Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.3.2.20000924013114.00b8f340>