Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

[Bill Fumerola]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jaakko Salomaa wrote:

> And yes, I know what ports are. But fetching and installing packages is
> much faster than fetching the bigger source tarball and compiling it. And
> yes, I know about the remote fetching ability of pkg_add, but it is pretty
> poor in my opinion. I think we need something like this. I'll make a port
> out of this if you want, or if it's my lucky day, perhaps it should even
> be added to the base distribution (damn, I'm ambitious :-]).

Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and
some enviromental variables.

I don't see the huge benefit.

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