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Summary: DJB slashpackage

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Subject: Summary: DJB slashpackage
From: Camiel Dobbelaar <cd@sentia.nl>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:21:09 +0200 (CEST)
Sender: owner-ports@openbsd.org
Everybody who contributed to this thread: thanks.

I plan on doing the following:

Hack daemontools so that it installs in LOCALBASE and behaves like
the 'old' daemontools.  Put a big warning in MESSAGE that points to the
slashpackage webpages and any other issues relating to it.

When this is no longer feasible: mark it BROKEN.  Same goes for other DJB
tools that may get converted to slashpackage.


That may be a good compromise for the (long) time being.  slashpackage may
well go the way of QMTP, EPLF, MXPS, etc.  Even the clearly superior
maildir format took a _long_ time.


I _am_ a bit suprised that no one took the bold stance that we should
convert our ports system to slashpackage.  =)


--
Cam





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