Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:34:00 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000331013400.A59445@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu 2000-03-30 (04:28), Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> No, I wrote it that way explicitly so users can install more than one
> version of the same "port" if they want. 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.
So long as we can turn off this behaviour! (:
I should actually dig up my stow-like C and perl code. (Noone
commented on my portconf tool, so I just gave up on submitting
stuff for ports for a while back then)
Neil
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