[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Wed Mar 23 21:44:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:04:26PM +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > On 03/23/2011 03:48, Peter Jeffery wrote:
> > > If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if
> > > it wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand
> > > searching the INDEX file
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/ && make search name=opera
> 
> This would be a good time to include ports-mgmt/pkg_search into the
> base system...

No, please keep the base system as small as possible.

ports(7) answered most, if not all, my questions.


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