discussion of other ports-related projects

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:28:52PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 1:18 PM +0800 4/13/04, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >>>It would be real helpfull to users if the package or port
> >>>system would be able to automatically overcome this problem
> >>>with installing the needed version in a way that the
> >>>installed versions stays intact.
> >>
> >>Take a look at the portupgrade port, I think that's what
> >>you're trying to describe.
> >
> >If I understood portupgrade right, ...
> 
> Please note that this thread is not about portupgrade, or
> successors to portupgrade.
> 
> The points you make are interesting, but please make them in a
> separate thread.

Since you've changed the subject I hope this qualifys as a separate
thread :).

As others have noted, DragonFly is attempting to tackle this.  Surprisingly
noone has mentioned that NetBSD introduced this feature in January.  Its
called "package views".  See
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/pkgsrc/mk/buildlink3/README?rev=1.4&content-type=text/plain

It allows multiple versions of the same port to be installed, which seems
to be what you want.

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