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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:29:03 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Subject:   Re: Other BSD's (was Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?))
Message-ID:  <20020711182903.GD12246@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020711073105.GB264@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:31:05AM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
[snip]
> Hm, then, why not steal those ideas?  It shouldn't be too hard and

don't know, try to search the -arch ml ?

> would solve a few problems.  
> 
> Some other things I like about gentoo are 
> 
> 2. you can do a "pretend" install, which will tell you which
>    dependencies and version numbers would be installed (ignoring
>    the ones which are already installed on your system), but not do
>    anything.

pkg_add -n ? (not tested)

> On that topic, with all the talk of ambitious new ports systems, does
> it make sense to go the route of, eg, openpackages
> (http://www.openpackages.org)?  Perhaps they've already thought about
> many of these issues, and if one wants cross-architecture across
> FreeBSD, maybe it makes sense to go cross-BSD as well.  The project
> seems to be dead or asleep (last webpage update 31 July 2001).

as well as the ml which sleep since may 2002.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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