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Re: DJB slashpackage

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Subject: Re: DJB slashpackage
From: Han <han@mijncomputer.nl>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:43:18 +0200
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Heikki Korpela (heko@iki.fi) wrote:

> Some options that first come into mind:

> 1) mark such ports as something like 

>    BROKEN="Please download and install these ports by yourself, they
>    don't fit into our ports system any more"

> 2) make the ports interactive and warn the user sufficiently about
>    the slashpackage issue

> 3) hack and patch the slashpackage issues away

> OpenBSD can't distribute binaries of daemontools in any case, so I
> think 1) or 2) wouldn't be much an issue.

Well maybe just like vim-stable and vim-snapshot, but then:

daemontools-oldfashioned
daemontools-slashpackage

I mean the old packages aren't broken or something.

cya, Han.

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