From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 24 19: 0:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB12E37B42C; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA93071; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:00:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: kosmos Cc: James Housley , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Design goals (Re: ports features wish list: USE_PACKAGE_FIRST) Message-ID: <20000924190021.C88616@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <39CC03C7.A67ACB97@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kosmos@bowhill.yi.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:37:03PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:37:03PM -0700, kosmos wrote: > Since the design goals of a ports rewrite/makeover are not entirely > clear to me, I can't really say for sure. Well, the only real thing I've seen is the document I wrote about how I think the ports system should be. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1328497+0+archive/2000/freebsd-ports/20000910.freebsd-ports BTW, is anyone actually working on some of the things we discussed a few weeks ago? Steve? Will? Satoshi? Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message