Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:27:04 -0400 From: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net> To: DAVID THOMPSON <thompsda@1stnational.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg / ports interface Message-ID: <20040714222704.62353bbf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040714220616.GB5994@isis.wad.cz> References: <s0f51d06.073@mail.pcbancorp.com> <20040714220616.GB5994@isis.wad.cz>
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:06:16 +0200 Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> wrote: > # thompsda@1stnational.com / 2004-07-14 11:45:46 -0700: > > I was wondering if this is the right spot to ask if there is any > > thought in discussing a ports and packages management interface? hello david, if you mean a unified graphical interface for viewing dependency trees, adding/removing ports, specifying installs 'from packages' or 'from ports', selecting specific build switches, just making and not installing, yada, yada, yada, i know of no existing tool which meets all these criteria. if you're proposing the development of such a tool, i think that this would be a worthy project. though it wouldn't necessarily add functionality to the many tools that are already available, it would probably provide a somewhat more newbie-friendly means to ports management (especially multiple ports with multiple cross-dependencies). if i understand you correctly, you may want to investigate /usr/ports/sysutils/portsman, which comes close. perhaps the scope of portsman could be expanded. because i have coding skills tantamount to zero, this is merely 2 cents. if you can program, you might consider contacting the portsman author and suggesting some new code? if you cannot, i suspect that rallying coders to this cause may pose a challenge (with the possible exception of the portsman author) for the 'functionality' reason indicated above. then again, perhaps i have no clue what you're talking about. ;) all cented out, epi > there are several interfaces: make, pkg_* commands, and > sysutils/portupgrade. Or did you mean something else? What was it? > > -- > If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore > your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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