pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Aug 24 02:24:16 UTC 2012


On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"?
>>
>> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;)
>
> The possibility of bad docs somewhere outside of our control, when we can (and I am actively working on) document(ing) pkgng for the handbook seems kinda thin. It's not even "Something's wrong on the Internet!" (http://xkcd.com/386/), it's "Something might some day be wrong on the Internet!"

It isn't a problem of bad docs. Its a problem of the user following
some not-for-new-systems documentation and getting very confused when
they see "command not found.". It is practically the definition of
POLA.

-- 
Eitan Adler


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