On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:53:53 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/06/2010 02:10:33, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > So --- this is what I would do. If I had a set of scripts that I > > wanted to install, I would write my own local port whose job is to > > install the scripts, and which lists the needed dependencies as > > RUN_DEPENDS. > > So, you're creating your own meta-port that exists only to be depended > on by the ports you specifically want to have installed? That's a > really good idea. You might need to fill out the contents of your > "wanted-ports" meta-port a bit more, but the concept seems sound to > me. > > It shouldn't cause horrendous problems with most package tools -- they > all cope with things like bsdpan- ports already, which don't have any > directory in the ports tree. If it's a metaport then it does have an origin. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
