Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:34:57 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for feedback on a Ports-collection change Message-ID: <20040112103457.GT51708@sirius.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <p0602041abc1660a416d0@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602041abc1660a416d0@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:49:25PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I have been pondering a possible change for the way the ports > collection is done. I've done a little exploration into the > idea, but I thought I'd ask for more feedback before sinking > more time into it. I believe I have someone who would do much > of the actual work for this change, so I think I can make it > happen, but I want to know if the FreeBSD ports project would > be interested in this idea if I come up with some working > version. > > To keep this as a "doable" project, I also have a fairly > modest goal: Further reduce the inode-count of the ports > collection. That's it. There are many things which could > be done as a follow-on to this, but that's all I want to > try for right now. Personally, I think there are more important issues in ports than keeping the inode count sane. Particularly since it is fairly difficult to reduce it further without putting large amounts of pressure on the maintainers. :-\ Regards, -- wca
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