Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"
- In reply to: Gleb Popov : "Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports""
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:11:30 UTC
On 20/08/2025 15:31, Gleb Popov wrote: > … if we're going full bikeshedding mode then I think that repos > should be named after what they represent rather than from what they are built. > That is, > - FreeBSD packages > - FreeBSD base packages > - FreeBSD kernel modules > > All right, maybe "FreeBSD packages" looks like a superset of the > latter two, so we can call it "FreeBSD main packages", which aligns > nicely with "FreeBSD quarterly packages". > > … I think, 'packages' in the name of any package repo will be superfluous. The configuration file is for use with pkg tools; we have 'pkg' in the url within the file; and 'pkg' in the path to the file.