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[Xin LI]

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Doug Barton wrote:
> Xin LI wrote:
> 
>> Let's see what we can do it in the future: teach pkg_search about how to
>> download an INDEX file for use, something that you don't have to install
>> the whole ports tree and can do easily.
>>
>> I think this is a very useful feature.  There are a lot of users who use
>> packages rather than using ports, and something like pkg_search,
>> pkg_update would definitely be an useful add to our current package tool
>> set.
> 
> Something like that may be useful, but I would argue that other out of
> band tools for perusing the ports collection already exist.
> 
> My point was simply that given the fact that pkg_search relies on the
> INDEX, having it in the base does not _add_ functionality, although it
> may do the same job in a better way.

A (hopefully) better use might be to have INDEX for package collection,
rather than ports collection, as we already done with release package
set.  It's just like sysinstall(8)'s package installation feature, but
would be rather easier to configure from my point of view.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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