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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        kosmos <kosmos@bowhill.yi.org>
Cc:        James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Design goals (Re: ports features wish list: USE_PACKAGE_FIRST)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242045410.23570-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242011530.8151-100000@bowhill.yi.org>

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, kosmos wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > > Since the design goals of a ports rewrite/makeover are not entirely 
> > > clear to me, I can't really say for sure.
> > 
> > Well, the only real thing I've seen is the document I wrote about how
> > I think the ports system should be.
> > 
> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1328497+0+archive/2000/freebsd-ports/20000910.freebsd-ports
> > 
> > BTW, is anyone actually working on some of the things we discussed a
> > few weeks ago? Steve? Will? Satoshi?
> 
> It would be nice to have a system, like another Gnats PR database, to
> store wish-list items, and link them to some kind of forum software, where
> people can discuss things point-by-point.

There is a wish-list category in gnats settable by committers (i.e. not by
PR submitters) which covers this. Assigning the PR to a mailing list will
direct followups there.

Kris

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