[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

Slawa Olhovchenkov slw at zxy.spb.ru
Tue Apr 19 08:39:12 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:31:17AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 03:24:30PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > We've managed to keep this disease out of BSD since I started to do it in
> > 1990. First we laughed/fumed at Sun's Solaris when they unbundled the
> > compiler. then we fumed at xorg when hey took a useful package and made 190
> > odd packages out of it. Please don't force this on us!
> > 
> 
> What isn't clear about the *numerous* statements that no one is being
> *forced* to use packaged base?

Because nowhere present roadmap about co-existing packaged base and
traditionsl install.
Because nowhere present roadmap of packaged base future.
Because package base is show-stoper for 11.0 relese -- this is read as
"11.0 switch to package base".


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