On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Christopher Masto wrote:
> I've often thought that it might be better if each port were a single
> tar file or something instead of the 30+ files that many of them now
> contain. From there, it seems like a straightforward step to not keep
> the tar files on your machine, much like you don't keep the distfiles.
> "make-port xmms" or whatever could go out and grab the xmms port tar
> file from ftpX.freebsd.org, extract it to the appropriate place, then
> do a make as usual.
Sorry if this has already come up - I haven't read the rest of this
monster thread yet, but the portcheckout port does exactly this.
Kris
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