cvs commit: ports/emulators/wine Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/emulators/wine/files patch-dlls-wineoss.drv

[Erwin Lansing]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:08:22AM -0700, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> One of the biggest weaknesses of the FreeBSD Ports Collection is that, 
> unlike RPM or DEB based systems, one port cannot easily create a set
> of complementary binary packages.
> 
> A richer package system nicely allows users to select options also for
> binary packages, not just ports, and combined with proper dependencies
> and concepts like "recommends" and "provides" is both safe and flexible.
> 
> (Think of -devel and -doc packages as general concepts supported by that.)
> 
> Is anyone looking into this for FreeBSD?
> 
This was discussed at BSDCan, not necessarily as a replacement for slave
ports, but as a more flexible solution.  It may be possible to leverage
the fakeroot installation in PKGNG for this later, but for now we want
to concentrate on getting PKGNG ready as a viable replacement of the
current pkg_* tools and add this and other features later.

A more elaborate summary of what was discussed at the ports and packages
summit will be send later after folks get a chance to get home.

-erwin

-- 
Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin at FreeBSD.org
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