[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

[Miguel Mendez]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

Hi,

> As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at
> least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should
> remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates
> if and when needed vary from ASAP to 10-15 years).   I have
> volunteered to undertake a feasibility/pilot project to examine what
> changes (if any) are needed in the system (for the purposes of this
> thread I will not venture any of my own suggestions).   I have the
> following broad questions for people:

I already replied to your questions in private but I wonder if you  
took a look at
pkgsrc and the enhancements the OpenBSD people have done the pkg*
commands and whether you think borrowing from them would be useful.

Cheers,

Miguel Mendez
mmendez at energyhq.be
http://www.energyhq.be
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