xmms missing form /stand/sysinstall

Well, I made the jump to FreeBSD.  It has been a few years since I made 
a serious run at a FreeBSD install, and this weekend I got two systems 
up.  With Audio, even.  The installer /stand/sysinstall has come a LONG 
way, congratulations.  4.6 installed from the mini-iso is a treat.

I was surprised to see that XMMS was NOT in the audio packages section, 
but  alot of XMMS related tools were.  So I tried to install the tools, 
figuring XMMS would be picked up as a dependency.  No luck, cryptic errors.

I ended up manually locating the package and running pkg_add.  The 
package name was

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages/audio/xmms-1.2.7_2.tgz

So I'm GUESSING that the underscore gives sysinstall heartburn?  Pardon 
me for not digging into the source 8-( but I figure comeone on the list 
might care.  Point me elsewhere of appropriate.

Another question for the maintainers of sysinstall:  How about CACHING 
the INDEX when retreived over the network?  I had do download the same 
index dozens of times, and I think a local copy is in order, even if it 
only has a 15 minute lifetime, with a user option to refresh from the 
net if needed.

I *know* that real FReeBSD users don't use sysinstall, but I like it and 
I think it is a good vehicle to get newbies into a real OS.

I suppose I could also talk abotu ranking the packages, so that popular 
packages are maked more prominently, but I suppose that would run afoul 
of the democratic principles engendered by the FreeBSD project.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for the OS.  Pointers, redirects, etc 
welcomed.

 


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