Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:11:12 +0200 From: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo/files ut2003-demo.in Message-ID: <20050905151112.GC52179@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20050904181653.79a8cd58.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <200509032046.j83KkpQL082427@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050904124420.545395cb@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050904171849.21d7613c.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <20050904181653.79a8cd58.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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Am 04. Sep 2005 um 18:16 CEST schrieb Oliver Lehmann: > Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > It reduces the size of the port by about 40kb, and eases future updates. > > 40kb? Wow, thats much in the age of 400GB disks. Dynamic package lists > makes it nearly impossible to find out which files a port provides. > >From time to time (at least) I need this information before I'm going to > install the port. I have to admit that I convinced myself not too long ago that the *ports* plist-data is not for human consumption, although you might find old mail from me where I state the contrary. In fact I began working on a pet-project which would extract meta-data from the *packages* (since I'm incidently sitting two floors above a local mirror). The basic functionality would be at least to scan statically for conflicting files. Mind you, I only have a +CONTENTS-parser (written in Haskell), and trying to get a PhD is severely interfering with anything that'd qualify as "having fun".... -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME It's a million to one chance, but it just might work.
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