Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:23:22 +0100 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> Cc: Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PKJ08ggRR%2BYrqv7n3=2dLEy-87ntWBWX35Tnk5Up8dY9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHzLAVES7V_wg1JPS_L4a5zhr6Fyu=q=c1MN2OwkB0N-CdQ-vA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <CAN6yY1uyXNp_c4PruKM89S9g0Y0QAs02cu5Z-dx3oSg1yZC19Q@mail.gmail.com> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CAHcXP%2Be1orionpYmyTWweC02mqU8B1FzZV=T4BEmdyekN%2BJxuA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHzLAVES7V_wg1JPS_L4a5zhr6Fyu=q=c1MN2OwkB0N-CdQ-vA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Matthew Seaman < >> m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >> >> > >> > I'd be interested to hear what features you think are missing. We will >> > implement anything (eventually...) that there is demand for and that is >> > technically feasible, and that fits with the overall concept of what we >> > think a packaging system should do. There's a number of ideas in the >> > github issue list already (usually tagged with 'longterm' or 'thinking') >> > and we are happy for people to add to that, or to discuss ideas -- the >> > freebsd-pkg@ list is a good place for that. >> > >> >> The ability to install certain package version, instead of installing >> simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty please! :) > > > I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step further and say > "a certain version or greater". > > I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes you might want to hold back a package. -- Daniel Nebdal
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