Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

[Bill Fumerola]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and
> > some enviromental variables.
> 
> In its current incarnation, that's pretty much true.  However, we also
> intend to throw feature upon feature request onto his pile until
> Jaakko ends up reproducing the Debian package manager for us! :-)

Why not just just teach 'pkg_add -r' about regex. It already knows
about alternate package site's (PACKAGESITE).

I don't see why we need a pkg_get or whatever when pkg_add already has
remote (with or without -r) functions, and adds dependencies just fine.

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