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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:20:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve
Message-ID:  <slrnj5au9n.7nm.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net>
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Hi Marcin Wisnicki! 

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:04:54 +0000 (UTC); Marcin Wisnicki wrote about 'Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve':

>>>  * Options must be included and installed to /var/db/ports/*/options
>>>    (this will allow to rebuild installed binary pkg as port)
>>>
>>>
>> This could be a good idea :) I'll keep it for pkgng

> See also +BUILD_INFO and other metadata files in pkgsrc.
> I couldn't find documentation but you can grab random binary package and 
> inspect its contents.

><rant>
> It's a shame that pkgsrc is so often ignored here. It solves so many 
> problems of ports and is so far ahead that any effort to improve ports 
> will never match what is already available from pkgsrc.
> </rant>

That's even more strange given that early years, pkg_* tools in NetBSD
(pkgsrc) and FreeBSD got active code exchange. Why has it stopped later?..

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