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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:58:05 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DRAFT: ports.7 
Message-ID:  <199801280228.MAA08304@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:17:45 CDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980127211106.28748A-100000@james.hwcn.org> 

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> > It is, because it will automatically compile the dependencies as well...
> Only if you remembered to download those ports (pkg_add tries to
> be a little bit smarter about dependency fetching, incidentally).
> If bsd.port.mk can't find the portdir, it will go on happily
> compiling your port until it fails due to a missing dependency.
I am fairly sure that it will just recursivley install the dependancies, but I 
haven't tried it recently.

> > > How likely is it that anyone will need to change FETCH_CMD?  How
> [...]
> > Well, *I* do :)
> Well, I guess that answers my question.  :)
Heh :)
I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as 
well :)

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