From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 20 23:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01085 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:59:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from baloon.mimi.com (sjx-ca126-30.ix.netcom.com [207.92.177.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01048 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by baloon.mimi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20538; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:22:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801210722.XAA20538@baloon.mimi.com> To: ji@research.att.com CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199801210613.BAA25398@bual.research.att.com> (message from John Ioannidis on Wed, 21 Jan 1998 01:13:42 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: ports vs. packages From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk * To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Why do people ask this sort of thing on -hackers? -ports, guys, -ports! There's a mailing list for that kind of stuff! * The ports and the packages collection don't seem to be mutually * consistent; there are ports for which there are no packages (which is * not a problem), and packages for which there are no ports (which * is). What gives? Examples please. (And tell me the exact location you found them...it's probably just that I forgot to delete an obsolete package.) Satoshi