Re: Upgrading without central packaging

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From: Aaron J. Grier
Subject: Re: Upgrading without central packaging
Date: 19:14 on 29 Apr 2005

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:36:13PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Does BSD ports have a concept of a "recommends"?  "Its not required
> that you install this but it sure would be useful".  ie. "perl
> recommends perl-documentation".  Any packaging system which does not
> is worthy of hate.

no recommends.  but there's even bigger things to hate about pkgsrc.

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

There's stuff above here

Michael G Schwern 01:36 on 28 Apr 2005
- Aaron J. Grier 19:14 on 29 Apr 2005

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