Re: The ports-system and userland in general.

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Michael Neumann wrote:

> Magnus Eriksson wrote:

> > Make
> > a specification that anyone can implement, be it with 'make install' like
> > command-line tools, graphical package selection or whatever.  Just leave
> > room for smart implementations you haven't thought of yet.

> What do you mean with "anyone can implement"? That's some sort of
> non-executable text-file, a specification in XML or YAML?

  Just that, in principle, there should be a specification and that it
should be possible, to have multiple implementations.  What file format is
used shouldn't really matter.


Magnus