GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup

[Andrew Brampton]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Julien Laffaye <kimelto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> During this summer, I'll work on the pkg_install tools to add complete
> package support.
> A complete package is a package which includes all the required
> dependencies in its tarball.
> Unlike the PBI package format of PC-BSD, once a complete package is installed,
> it appears as every package contained in the complete package was
> installed separately.
>
[snip]
>
> Best regards,
> Julien Laffaye

Hi Julien,

Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a
complete package over many individual ones?

Andrew