From: Marc Espie (espienerim.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 08:10:43 CST

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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:01:26PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Hannah Schroeter <hannahschlund.de> writes:

> > > X isn't in packages, but in simple tarballs.

> > > cd / ; for i in some/path/x*.tgz; do tar xvvzpf $i; done

> > > Configure if needed, run X.

> > Nick Holland <nickholland-consulting.net> writes:

> > > No.
> > > X is not a "package". It is a file set, not part of the ports tree.

> > Not to be argumentative but ratpoison is still dependant on it [them].
> > Seems that should be made apparent in the ports search output somehow eh?

> Well, you *are* under /usr/ports/x11...

> It could be argued that some output might be desirable here; but on the
> other hand, this would lead to lots of people asking on misc where this
> 'x' package can be found...

make search key=
is more or less deprecated...

You can get much more accurate information through all the other
infrastructure. And the pkg tools are using ways more stuff to figure out
what you can actually install on a machine.

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