Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:26:49 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000330172649.C14845@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:28:54AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:28:54AM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> Ultimately we want to go to
> something like gnu stow (the /var/opt/pkgname/{bin,share,lib...} and
> the symlink tree from /usr/local) and there is no reason why we have
> to restrict ourselves to one version per port.
Gah! How on earth are we going to implement that?
Also, we've been talking about reducing the number of inodes in
the port skeletons, whereas this will (at least) double the number
of them for installed programs.
This is a very scary proposition.
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
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