security/{nmap,zenmap} consolodation

Jason Hellenthal jhell at DataIX.net
Mon Jul 4 21:33:25 UTC 2011



On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:20:29PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2011 21:47, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhell at dataix.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi ohauer@
> > >
> > > I was curious if you would be intnerested in consolidating
> > > security/zenmap into security/nmap with the options framework and
> > > deprecating security/zenmap since it continually falls pretty far behind
> > > newer versions of nmap in ports.
> >
> > Remember that with the OPTIONS framework only one package gets
> > generated: whatever the default OPTION is. Not everyone wants the GUI
> > and those who want the GUI may not want to build the port from source.
> >
> 
> Ok... so how about a master/slave port?
> 
> That'd keep everything in sync.
> 

That would be perfect.

I retract what I said about the options framework idea. That would take
and awfulhack just to get around that and I personally would not like to
see that happen.


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