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On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:06 am, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> On this topic, I'd like to ad some ideas. How about a package database |
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> on some central server ( and mirrors...). This db would have more |
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> indepth information of every package, HOWTOS, bugs, discussions all that |
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> kind of information you would wan't (mostly just a gentoo specific info |
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> text and link to a homepage I suspect, but you COULD add more). |
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> This way you could have a forum for each package. This is probably |
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> wanted if gentoo keeps growing, gentoo-user would be heavy as |
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> linux-kernel. |
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> /John |
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That is an EXCELLENT idea. It seems like such an obvious one, but alas, |
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nobody else has come out with it. |
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FreeBSD, for example, indexes all of their ports on the web, with extra |
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info that (among other things) allow you to quickly jump into CVS to see |
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what revisions have been made. But there are no forums for each port. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@×××××.com] |
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