Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:29:36 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: jher <jher@io.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion Message-ID: <35F6F340.1A36E1A7@dal.net> References: <19980909145931.A29509@io.com>
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jher wrote: > > I would like to suggest a number of different ports kits. > I work for an ISP and I find myself grabbing the entire ports kit, installing > it (which takes forever) and then only using about 20% of the kit, if that. > What I would like to suggest is twofold: > > first: how about making tar files of each category? I.E. www.tar, net.tar, > etc.. That way I can just update an entire section of my ports collection at > once. > > second: combine said categories into larger groups like "foreign.tar" which > has german, vietnamese, korean, etc.. in it.. "webserver.tar" which has say > net.tar, www.tar, shells.tar, lang.tar, etc.. I think these are excellent suggestions. > This would make life a hell of a lot earlier for folks like myself. Also, > why the heck does the default install of freebsd 2.2.x and 3.x have perl4 as > the default perl instead of perl5? Everytime I do an upgrade it breaks my > setup.. Even as we speak perl 5 is being placed into the 3.0 branch, which will be the -Stable branch in about 6 months, or maybe less. Meanwhile, you can set the NOPERL option in your make.conf file to avoid this problem. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** At Barry (a small town in south Wales) hidden cameras have had to be installed to keep watch on the town's CCTV [Closed Circuit Television] to record acts of vandalism against the CCTV. - Privacy Forum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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