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Re: pkg_add and remote packages
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:50:48PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
> : packages/foo-1.0.tar.gz
> : packages/foo-1.0.pkg_summary
>
> Hm, that would make it easier to update pkg_summary. And it would
> eliminate the need to download the whole thing for just installing one
> package: download the *.pkg_summary file and you have the list of
> dependecies.
Not necessary. pkg_info -X already fetches only the meta data part of
the package (still large e.g. for tetex, but that's a different
question).
Joerg
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