Re: pkg_info and $PKG_PATH

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:46:10PM -0700, Ben Goren wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:06:45PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> 
> > do we really want this?  pulling down the entire mozilla package
> > just to  look at  the description  seems a  waste, since  if you
> > decide to install  it, the tmpfile is already gone  and you have
> > to download again.
> 
> This probably opens a whole can  of worms...but would there be any
> practical  way to  cache  the downloaded  file? Have  it saved  to
> /usr/ports/packages? And have  it automagically  and intelligently
> managed?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> b&

Don't spend too much time thinking about this.
There will be some big changes in pkg_* after 3.4.