Date: 18 Sep 2000 22:55:28 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porteasy Message-ID: <xzphf7dwhbz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:39:05 -0500" References: <86og1ld4u6.fsf@md5.follo.net> <20000918142919.D35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <xzp4s3dxxcn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000918153904.G35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
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Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> writes:
> Sounds neat. Seems like this sort of thing should be put under
> ports/Tools/scripts, not made into a port.
No, actually I'd like to see it in the base system. The whole point of
porteasy is to abstract away the ports tree; once you've installed it,
you don't need [to know that you have] a ports tree. It takes care of
updating just what you need when you need it, and does all the right
things (hopefully) to achieve what you want to do in one single
command. In the very few cases where you'll need to do anything
manually - like specifying additional parameters to make - porteasy
can still do most of the job (check out updated versions of all the
dependencies, fetch all distfiles in one batch, etc.) for you, and you
only need to do the last bit ('make A4=yes') yourself.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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