Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:38:34 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <200309011938.h81JcYF14647@thistle.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:44:15 CDT." <20030901132021.F11735@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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In nuntio <20030901132021.F11735@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>, Chris Dillon divulgat: >I break as many depedencies as I possibly can out of a particular >piece of software into separate distribution packages with their own >dependency chains. The FreeBSD ports/packages system just happens to >already do this to a high degree, because it is a good idea. Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" can be installed at once. Greg Shenaut
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