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Date:      Sat, 17 May 1997 14:07:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970517140623.1036D-100000@nexis.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970517204613.16511A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Sat, 17 May 1997, Narvi wrote:

> No! No! NO!
> 
> Yes, it would be great. But I didn't mean something as complex.
> 
> What I meant is just keeping a copy of the bsd.port.mk file in the "root"
> directory of the ports (which for some people is /usr/ports). 
> 
> It would make it real easy for people to copy it over to the right place
> (/usr/share/mk) or make /usr/share/mk/bsd.ports.mk a link to the one in
> the directory they sup/cvsup ports to.

That makes sense.  Basically, so that when someone says "It doesn't work!"
we can say "Copy /usr/ports/bsd.port.mk over to /usr/share/mk" instead of
"Well, you have to learn how to CVsup so that you can get a newer copy of
bsd.port.mk".

Works for me.

--
j.




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