On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:45:42PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Flattening out the unecessarily deep ports directory structure would help,
> too. Probably, 98 percent of it could be done with a script, and it would
> greatly decrease cvsup time and space.
I've often thought that it might be better if each port were a single
tar file or something instead of the 30+ files that many of them now
contain. From there, it seems like a straightforward step to not keep
the tar files on your machine, much like you don't keep the distfiles.
"make-port xmms" or whatever could go out and grab the xmms port tar
file from ftpX.freebsd.org, extract it to the appropriate place, then
do a make as usual.
I haven't had time to try to implement it, though.
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