> > That will certainly be a big help. When we got rid of the pkg/ and
> > patches/ directories I begged Satoshi to go farther and put patches in
> > main port directory and get rid of pkg/COMMENT. That was back when we
> > hit 3000 ports -- I guess people didn't want to accept we would hit 8000
hi, there!
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:36:51PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Since pkg-comment contains only a single line, wouldn't it be more subtile
> > > to put it in a COMMENT field as does NetBSD, instead of using a file? I think
> > > it would speed up updates.
> >
> > http://people.F
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:23:19PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> > Since pkg-comment contains only a single line, wouldn't it be more subtile
> > to put it in a COMMENT field as does NetBSD, instead of using a file? I think
> > it would speed up updates.
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-
> Since pkg-comment contains only a single line, wouldn't it be more subtile
> to put it in a COMMENT field as does NetBSD, instead of using a file? I think
> it would speed up updates.
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-comment.diff
Will Andrews said that portmgr would be going over this som
