From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 16:53:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from celerystick.finally.org (p6n207167115185.inetworld.net [207.167.115.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5730B15310 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 16:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ieng9.ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by celerystick.finally.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00465 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ieng9.ucsd.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: celerystick.finally.org: mark owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:52:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Bermal X-Sender: mark@celerystick.finally.org Reply-To: mbermal@ucsd.edu To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Encap Package Manager Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was browsing around, and I came acroess the Encap Package Management system. I was wondering if anybody heard of it and if it would be advantageous to have a similar system under FreeBSD. Basically, it allows packages to have their own install directorys, and symlinks the proper files to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share/man, etc, etc. I though it was pretty cool. Comments? URL: http://encap.cso.uiuc.edu/ Mark Bermal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message