Subject: Re: READMEs for binary packages?
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/12/2003 00:28:13
I think it might be nice to have a simple tool to generate a web page with
a list of installed packages with links to their DESCR files.  I haven't
thought much about generating such a thing from a collection of
not-installed pkgs, but it shouldn't be to hard and I would expect it
might be useful.  


On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> All these README.html files are all very well and good for people who
> want to build packages from source all the time, but has anyone put any
> thought into creating README and DESCR files for binary packages,
> especially ones that could co-exist with multiple releases and get along
> happily in a sparsely populated "packages" tree?
> 
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