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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:34:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: graphical assistant for pkg
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 2015/01/20 01:31, lucaslucaslucas24 wrote:
>> Im thinking in graphical assistant for pkg, as synaptic in gnu/linux deb's.
>>
>> with options for select some, all, any packages; options for update, etc.
>>
>> ¿what you think about my idea?
>
> We would welcome a contribution of a well written package management
> tool based on libpkg.so, and I would be happy to add it to the ports
> collection.
>
> There is already some work in this area -- see PC-BSD for instance, but
> nothing that I think is really a 'must have' for every desktop environment.

Wasn't there also a summer of code project for that recently?
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:34:16AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>=20
> > On 2015/01/20 01:31, lucaslucaslucas24 wrote:
> >> Im thinking in graphical assistant for pkg, as synaptic in gnu/linux d=
eb's.
> >>
> >> with options for select some, all, any packages; options for update, e=
tc.
> >>
> >> =BFwhat you think about my idea?
> >
> > We would welcome a contribution of a well written package management
> > tool based on libpkg.so, and I would be happy to add it to the ports
> > collection.
> >
> > There is already some work in this area -- see PC-BSD for instance, but
> > nothing that I think is really a 'must have' for every desktop environm=
ent.
>=20
> Wasn't there also a summer of code project for that recently?

There have been at least 2 last summer but nothing came out

Bapt

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