From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 6 12:59:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CE27332 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x232.google.com (mail-la0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B330511B0 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f50.google.com with SMTP id ec20so1453605lab.9 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:58:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7SbN4S8ueOH0L9bVrxz9/eaW1xT5muR8EKvlWJevU1M=; b=M2MtgUXMhO4gnN6mSea+k49J0fPaUEd6NVMfApYrybDuLb3LW/VlM1iXjEe1KQK+B6 HirMorsv99/oAQdDqLzh+H7zmDLKnfaLT+EPlp48Yas2qbX+2F7BY6k0KvdchANKJxTx T0uX44LXhmJa+bau5XtprVgtH33xlUmI0gtWu7F17y3dEvgYP1dkvhdevOW7AYR2+Qhs c5kPJVevUUFUhyLOyrbJn3wUMhP/MdUSmgYD+m+3T4mbFuotJ8HGOModx1l1k0bPWvSi rVnsh/201mGNZtvHgzOCUkmoaBIhjEmuGKHQugmF5Zjj7048TjyQZpNDpqaYPm7nDXZp UvEw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.180.42 with SMTP id dl10mr365975lac.62.1391691537717; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:58:57 -0800 (PST) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.0.81 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:58:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 07:58:57 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qChT_J99JBSoEDlZOhXWotZ5WYk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools From: Rick Miller To: Daniel Nebdal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: Big Lebowski , freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:59:00 -0000 On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Matthew Seaman < > >> m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > I'd be interested to hear what features you think are missing. We > will > >> > implement anything (eventually...) that there is demand for and that > is > >> > technically feasible, and that fits with the overall concept of what > we > >> > think a packaging system should do. There's a number of ideas in the > >> > github issue list already (usually tagged with 'longterm' or > 'thinking') > >> > and we are happy for people to add to that, or to discuss ideas -- the > >> > freebsd-pkg@ list is a good place for that. > >> > > >> > >> The ability to install certain package version, instead of installing > >> simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty please! :) > > > > > > I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step further and say > > "a certain version or greater". > > > > > > I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes > you might want to hold back a package. > Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus, allowing him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or even "port-1.0 or newer". -- Take care Rick Miller