On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Folks, how about _admitting_ finally that our ports collection is a > database? We wouldn't need anything else than standard system tools to > maintain a ports.db file containing all that we want as DB records.
Rule #1: Any change to the ports collection must not make it harder for the ports committers to keep the ports collection up to date. Rule #2: Any change to the ports collection must not make it harder for people to help out with the ports collection. Rule #3,4, and 5: Read rules #1 and 2 again. Rule #6: It is nice (but not essensial) if the ports become faster and/or smaller than today. Rule #7,8,9, and 10: Read rules #1 and 2 again, and understand their impact. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
