Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:24:04 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a meta port ports-mgmt/pkg_upgrade Message-ID: <b269bc570912010924i63d0791cj10c47e7d2c344e02@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B15212C.5060201@bsdforen.de> References: <4B15212C.5060201@bsdforen.de>
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>wrote: > It has been suggested to me to split pkg_upgrade out of > sysutils/bsdadminscripts and create a separate port in > ports-mgmt/pkg_upgrade, because people have difficulty to find > it, unless they stumble over one of my shameless advertisements. > > This however is not compatible with my plan to share code between > scripts in the future. Hence the only alternative seems to me, > a meta port in ports-mgmt/pkg_upgrade that depends on > sysutils/bsdadminscripts. > > Would such a thing be accepted? I feel sceptical, because it does > not even depend on several packages and the real solution in my > opinion would be if people searched the ports tree with > "make quicksearch cat=ports-mgmt" instead of browsing the file > system. But they don't and I know of no way making them do it. > You could always split out the common code into a library port, and make that a dependency for the pkg_upgrade and bsdadminscripts ports. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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