Garrett Cooper wrote: > Compressing and decompressing packages still takes an inordinate > amount of time from what I've seen, so it's probably not the best idea > to do.
If you mean what I think you mean, I agree :) > What would happen too if one or more of the config files was modified > by a third-party (third-party being outside of the ports/package tools > and the original FreeBSD volunteer / package maintainer)? That wouldn't > work (unless you made the modifications yourself), but after that point > the package becomes sort of undistributable. > > The only way AFAIK to circumvent that issue would be if you someone > installed / created the package via a tinderbox (which is the way that > it's done currently, correct?). For me, the situation is like for a tinderbox but in abstract, people might want to distribute the modified packages locally.
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