From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 15 23:34:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01310 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 23:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (exim@myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01254 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 23:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from dom by myrddin.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0ylpHE-0000Jw-00; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:31:28 +0100 To: "Justin M. Seger" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Size of a port... References: <199806160244.WAA26468@freebsd.scds.com> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: "Justin M. Seger"'s message of "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:44:00 -0400 (EDT)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:31:28 +0100 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Justin M. Seger" writes: > A few people have expressed interest in a file being stored with every port > that contains the size of the installed port. Here are a few lines that could > be added to bsd.port.mk to create such a file. Please let me know what you > think. Something I'd be more interested in rather than the size of a port would be a small file containing a description that could be used to build a window manager's menu's from. Something like /var/db/pkg/program-1.0/+APP: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE CATEGORY COMMAND LINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does this sound reasonable? -- "Remember the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules" -- WoID To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message