On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Steve Price wrote: > There is one entry in INDEX for every port. If you exclude the > libgnugetopt port itself there are only two that use it. So not > as many are "poorly written" as you might think.
I was more thinking about stuff like dpkg.. :) > That is what I wanted. My suggestion was to use one from the > Ports Collection because you can use the patches/* files as a > jumpstart for what needs to be tweaked in order to get it run > on a FreeBSD machine. This requires zero changes to the base > system (read: no new libc, etc.) and could easily net you ~2500 > FSSTND-compliant .debs with very little effort. Yeah, I know. It's probably a pretty good way to go. > Not a true picture of what I've done over the years. These are > ones that I've made changes to and was the last one to touch, > but you get the idea. I think I can help if you have specific > questions. :) Sounds great! I'll see what I can do. Unfortunately, I haven't got the ports collection at home so I can't do any real testing.. I guess I should have used two CD:s instead of being greedy. :-/
