Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:35:25 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030902083525.GA89347@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200309011938.h81JcYF14647@thistle.bogs.org> References: <20030901132021.F11735@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <200309011938.h81JcYF14647@thistle.bogs.org>
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: >Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" >ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty >useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" >can be installed at once. Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their dependencies. Peter
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