Re: DJB slashpackage

[Morten Liebach <morten@hotpost.dk>]

On  5, Aug, 2001 at 05:50:59PM +0300, Heikki Korpela wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Camiel Dobbelaar wrote:
> 
> > Dan does not answer private email about issues like this.  I've stopped
> > trying a long time ago.  On his mailinglists and webpages he is ofcourse
> > pushing for slashpackage.
> 
> Some options that first come into mind:
> 
> 1) mark such ports as something like
> 	BROKEN="Please download and install these ports by yourself, they don't fit into our ports system any more"
> 
> 2) make the ports interactive and warn the user sufficiently about
>    the slashpackage issue
> 
> 3) hack and patch the slashpackage issues away
> 
> OpenBSD can't distribute binaries of daemontools in any case, so I
> think 1) or 2) wouldn't be much an issue.

3) is definitely ugly, 2) is OK, and so is 1).

Maybe it's best to use 2).

2) is best for dependencies like qtools and such i.e. you'll not have
to make a hack to install qtools from ports if /package is managed
through ports, but it's not "pretty".

I don't know, I was wondering how Camiel were going to do this, there's
no obviously superior way. :-)
Basically /package is really nice, it's just that all the world isn't
djbware.

Just my .02 Euro

		Morten

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