On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dneb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller <vmil...@hostileadmin.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski <spankthes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Matthew Seaman < > >> m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > I'd be interested to hear what features you think are missing. We > will > >> > implement anything (eventually...) that there is demand for and that > is > >> > technically feasible, and that fits with the overall concept of what > we > >> > think a packaging system should do. There's a number of ideas in the > >> > github issue list already (usually tagged with 'longterm' or > 'thinking') > >> > and we are happy for people to add to that, or to discuss ideas -- the > >> > freebsd-pkg@ list is a good place for that. > >> > > >> > >> The ability to install certain package version, instead of installing > >> simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty please! :) > > > > > > I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step further and say > > "a certain version or greater". > > > > > > I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes > you might want to hold back a package. > Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus, allowing him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or even "port-1.0 or newer". -- Take care Rick Miller _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
